# Section Reviews
**Vendor:** Section  
**Category:** [Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/content-delivery-network-cdn)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Section
Section's Edge Hosting Platform is changing the paradigm for application deployment by enabling the simplest and most cost-effective way to deploy and manage applications across a truly optimized Edge.




## Section Reviews
  ### 1. Great website acceleration and security

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jason W. | Head of IT Operations, Retail, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Section?**

Fantastic caching system and a well designed administration portal.

**What do you dislike about Section?**

There is really nothing to dislike, their technical support is top notch and caching solution has prooved rock solid.

**Recommendations to others considering Section:**

Definitely give Section.io a try if you are looking for rock solid website caching services and exceptional customer service.

**What problems is Section solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are currently using Section.io to provide Varnish caching services to our e-commerce website and to provide Threat-X intelligent security solution.

  ### 2. A New kind of CDN

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Delimer G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2016

**What do you like best about Section?**

Section.io is a brand new highly customizable CDN service with a nice support team and very neat dashboard. 

**What do you dislike about Section?**

The introduction at first is annoying (you can skip it though) 

**Recommendations to others considering Section:**

Give the trial a try, you may fall in love with it's beautiful interface.

**What problems is Section solving and how is that benefiting you?**

DNS, Content delivery, site protection, website speed up, ddos protection.


## Section Discussions
  - [What is Section used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-section-used-for)

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## Section Features
**Content**
- Static Content Caching
- Dynamic Content Routing
- Cache purging

**Infrastructure Provision**
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- Hybrid Cloud
- Bare Metal
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Virtual Machines (VMs)
- Edge Computing
- Virtual Networks

**Agentic AI - Content Delivery Network (CDN)**
- Proactive Assistance

**Security**
- SSL
- Custom SSL

**Development**
- Application Deployment
- Development Tools
- Development Environment
- Language Support
- Testing

**Traffic**
- Traffic Controls
- Network Controls
- Traffic Overview

**Management**
- Pay by Usage
- Usage Tracking
- Performance Tracking

**Management**
- Dashboard
- Reports
- Logs

**Database**
- Database Management
- Analytics
- Auto Scaling
- Backup / Recovery
- Storage

**Administration**
- Dashboard
- Scalability
- Customization
- API / Integrations

**Functionality**
- Resource Auto-Scaling

**Integration**
- API
- CMS Integration

**Infrastructure**
- Networking
- Virtual Machines
- Security

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