# CacheFly Reviews **Vendor:** CacheFly **Category:** [Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/content-delivery-network-cdn) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About CacheFly Launched in 2002, CacheFly developed the world’s first TCP-anycast based Content Delivery Network—the only network built for throughput. From the first byte to the last byte, CacheFly delivers your files faster. Learn why many of the world's most trusted brands trust CacheFly to deliver their content. Visit us at www.cachefly.com. ## CacheFly Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users commend the **incredible CDN performance** of CacheFly, enhancing streaming and global reach effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users commend CacheFly for its **global reach** , enabling wide device accessibility with reliable HLS streaming solutions. (1 reviews) - Users value the **seamless HLS and LL-HLS streaming** provided by CacheFly for diverse devices globally. (1 reviews) ## CacheFly Reviews ### 1. Best CDN partner with global reach for building innovative integrations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariia A. | Product Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2025 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Working with CacheFly as a premier CDN partner was an incredibly rewarding collaboration. Together we built scalable HLS and LL-HLS streaming with DVR and global CDN reach for developers, startups, and enterprises that need to reach the widest range of devices using the industry-standard HLS protocol. The CacheFly team was proactive and a pleasure to work with throughout the process. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Honestly, there isn’t anything to criticize. Our experience was consistently positive from start to finish. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** CacheFly helps us deliver high-quality real-time video, audio, and data streaming across the globe without compromising performance. ### 2. Best CDN in the industry! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris S. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** CacheFly's staff is universally the most friendly and helpful group of folks I've ever worked with. They are also some of the most intelligent people I've found in the network / CDN industry. They have worked with me to build solutions that helped solve a number of scenarios. Most notably is their Image Optimization service that runs along side our image origin to allow for on the fly image changes like size and quality. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** I wish I had something to share here. Fortunately for CacheFly, I don't. They are all around awesome! Their uptime is stellar, their support team is very responsive, they are very dynamic in adapting to be able to service unique needs, their pricing rates are stellar. I mean I seriously have no problems with them at all! **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** If you're working with someone like Cloudflare, Fastly or Akamai (the others I personally have experience with), definitely give CacheFly a call. They offer a far superior product at a competitive price. You won't regret it! **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're utilizing CacheFly primarily for static content delivery and image optimization. This has helped speed up the performance of our services globally and allowed for reduced bandwidth consumption in between CacheFly and the end user. Benefits all around! **Official Response from Megan Killion:** > It's always a pleasure working with you Chris! ### 3. Rock solid service and knowledgeable staff **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** CacheFly is always up to the challenge when it comes to providing one of the fastest CDN services around. Their staff both sales and technical are extremely knowledgeable when it comes to up and coming technologies like Edge Compute. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** The main CacheFly portal could use and update. It would also be great to be able to set reverse proxy origin via the API, instead of having to log into the portal. Configuration of Geo Block rules would be nice to do via the Portal instead of having to submit a ticket. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** Take CacheFly for a spin, and you will be amazed on how they compare to your current CDN from a speed perspective. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CacheFly for redistribution of HLS streams. By using CacheFly we don't have to worry about scaling out our delivery resources when there are spikes in user demand. ### 4. They CLAIM to offer free CDN to Non Profits but dont actually follow through **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Nothing at all, they didnt respond after we sent IRS 501c3 letter **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** We had a zoom meeting to discuss the CDN and said they would provide us with an account after we send the IRS letter, we did that on 4/8/22 and send another message on 4/29/22 and they have failed to respond **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** NONE ### 5. Best web content optimizer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aravind S. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Cachefly uses intelligent algorithms to make the web-pages and the content load faster in an efficient way without any loss due to compression. It also offers extreme low latency streaming which is perfect for broadcasting live shows to our subscribers. Integration with third party software like WordPress is simple and it also offers it services to all regions and charges the same price irrespective of the location. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** CacheFly could be a bit expensive for small scale websites, although the 2 week trial would be sufficient to test it's use case. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Cachefly we were able to have a well optimized CDN tool and also reduce the load times for our customers significantly. It has also been helpful in reducing our cloud costs by a large scale without any deterioration in performance. With CacheFly we have been able to expand through out the globe without any restrictions. ### 6. One of the most reliable and faster CDN service provider **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Competitive and customized pricing, faster network, presence of POP across the globe **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Nothing much as of now, but they should provide SSL certificate upload option to client **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cachefly helped us to bring down our spending on CDN service, which is very important for our business ### 7. Supported all the way **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** The team behind Cachefly supported us all the way; they were helpful, responsive, and clear. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** As a charity, the support package is expensive **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** We're small business to CacheFly, but they've supported us all the way through to rolling out into production. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Global media distribution via apps, podcasts, and websites **Official Response from Megan Killion:** > We're so glad you feel supported as a CacheFly customer. I'm sorry to hear you find the support package expensive. Unfortunately, with free CDN accounts, we do need to charge for support so we can give all our customers a high level of customer service. We are always happy to work with you to find something that is affordable for you! Please reach out to your account manager should you need help sizing up alternative packages! ### 8. Cachefly Better than Anyone Else **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason M. | Global Digital Product Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** If you are worry about your content delivery to your customers then here lies a solution. I am using CacheFly form a long time and I am satisfied form its quality services that ensure the content deliver to my customers so that they can enjoy consistent services. Through this software I have got rid of many issues related to image optimization because it provides the best mobile CDN and any website is downloaded in just a second. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** The main issue associated with this software is the pricing policy. It is very costly software even the most economical plan is quite expensive. Also with passage of time as the work load increases you may face slowdown in the system but it can’t only relate this flaw with CacheFly. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** This is the most amazing software for providing the fast services to your customers. This tool will help you to create latency free videos and you will be in a position to better engage your audience. The most important factor is that it suppresses the buffering is any videos thus hives you quality services. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since I started implementation my productivity has increased as more number of people have reached my product and this is entirely due to fast loading of the web pages on the mobile applications. Right form its installment to its implementation I did not stuck in any major issues; this is due to their awesome customer support. **Official Response from Megan Killion:** > Glad to hear you are happy with CacheFly Jason! We're always happy to work with customers to find packages that are affordable to them. Please out to your account manager if you need help finding something that works for you! ### 9. Best tool for media stream optimisation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed B. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Cachefly has helped us to optimise several websites for better delivery of media services. It has helped us to provide the end user with a much lesser bandwidth need and improved loading times. The APIs are simple to use and any developer can be trained with it in a very less span of time. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Prior communication to users before depreciating legacy services would be off great help and a much better documentation of the release notes are needed. Although there was nothing to complain about the tool or their services. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been able to embed video and animation content with much better ease into our networks and also deliver our customer with a better overall experience. Our downtime have also reduced significantly and glitches while media playback are nearly nonexistent now. ### 10. Reliable service with competitive pricing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa L. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** The best technology is technology you can forget about, and CacheFly is a business solution that we rely upon without any worries. CacheFly is so reliable that we really don't have to think about it much at all. It's always there, and we never worry about downtime. We've compared CacheFly pricing to other major CDNs. They're really competitively priced, but the reliability puts them over the top. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** We have experienced no problems whatsoever with CacheFly. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** CacheFly is expanding and we're able to deliver our content up to five times faster to our international audience. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We host audio and video podcasts using CacheFly for distribution worldwide. The benefits of using CacheFly include reliability, fast connections, and ease of use. Their dashboard also gives us valuable insight into our deployment of media. ### 11. Manage contents efficiently **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Willem L. | Frontend Chapter Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** It is only because of CacheFly that I am capable of providing the smooth services to my customers. The content always represents an organization and this tool always held itself accountable for this. Thus it is helping me to manage and serve my content in much effective and efficient way. This tool has help me to understand the market needs and to ensure that my content has reached everywhere across the world. It has expand my network and opened new doors for me to launch my market and my product on the whole. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** This is a very costly tool, due to which I have to make a big heart while it’s purchasing. Further it is a technical tool and a steep learning curve is always associated with it. Moreover I feel there is much room for the improvement especially when I compare it with Amazon Cloud front. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** This tool is very much suitable for the large set ups who are dealing in B2C type business set up. It will not only help you to target the china market but also you can hit the customers across the world. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has provided me an opportunity to balance my content with a multi-CDN strategy. It is base on multi-CDN and could easily be integrated with any provider. While working on this tool I never face any difficulty regarding the security concerns. ### 12. Cachefly is a CDN that is high quality, consistent and dependable. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mili S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Fast - for our content delivery, it is important that we get fastest service available, and CacheFly does exactly that. Our company tests several CDNs evert year and CacheFly always wins. When we need support, they are very quick to respond and help us out. We have been using it for 12 years now and could not be satisfied. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Didn't have problems or issues with CacheFly. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** If your needs require a CDN, consider Cachefly thoroughly. We have used it for many years and are very satisfied with it. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Fast global performance for our software delivery. - Our customers are very satisfied and are able to download our software quickly. - Quick support ### 13. Cachefly - An extremely saavy, fast, and valuable CDN provider. They are great to work with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiriki D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Cachefly provides an exceptionally fast and global CDN, great service, great price. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Cachefly is working on improving their access to logs and real-time data out of the CDN. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** Talk to your account team to review your requirements. They will help on-board and implement the configurations. They can help review your caching policies, and other configurations to help dial it all in. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cachefly is helping us extend our segmented streaming delivery, like HLS and Dash which benefits from CDN topology. They are also extending low latency streaming support to global edges. It provides us with many more pop's and a superior infrastructure offering. ### 14. A very simple way to distribute content quickly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracy M. | Robotic Process Automation Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** I really like that it is easy to use, the content we can generate is really scalable, the system is robust and very easy to integrate, the technical support is very good and they are always there to help us at all times. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** It is a very integrative software and very easy to use, honestly we have not had anything negative with this software. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** Cachefly is a good system to generate content without delay, it is simple to use and the technical support is always available to request any help. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our clients are satisfied and very happy, we have been able to offer our clients the content they expect. ### 15. Content management at the highest level **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cindy H. | Information Technology Network Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** I like how fast our customers access the content they require and how easy it is to do, it has a powerful user interface, I also like how scalable it can be and how cheap the monthly fee is. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** It is a fantastic software for content management, our users and clients appreciate it and with a good integration with Wordpress. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** It's a good way to keep customers informed and to navigate easily, the software is low-cost, and the content management is highly scalable. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We improve our way for our clients to know any information we want and do so immediately and regardless of the country where they are. ### 16. CacheFly… seamlessly integrates with FTP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aeryn Candy H. | Especialista en automatización, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** CacheFly is a tool with a great future throughout the industry because it meets specific efficiency requirements. It is very easy to use and to implement, which generates great satisfaction for all users. It has the virtue of intracion with FTP integration, it also has the ability to easily create subaccounts. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** I don't think CacheFly has negative aspects, it's great to use and I think it stayed this way for a long time. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** Use with confidence, price is not an issue when this product builds confidence and generates high productivity. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Static content execution problems, with the integration with FTP we are achieving it. ### 17. A fantastic CDN with amazing support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jim A. | Adjunct Instructor, Marketing Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** CacheFly is a great Content Delivery Network. They have always performed highly for our video platform and delivered our video globally with minimal latency. They also have a great support staff available for any technical challenges that arise. I would highly recommend CacheFly to anyone looking for a great CDN at competitive pricing. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** There's nothing I really dislike about CacheFly. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** Great content delivery network and service. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working on maintaining operational excellence in products, systems and processes to deliver a world-class video experience to our customers. ### 18. media expansion has never been better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joan G. | Chief Information Security Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** I like that its quick and easy tools can make the content I direct reach consumers in time so that they know what we are doing **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** There are some members of our staff who are not used to the work system and we must teach them. We would appreciate that in the future you take charge of delivering more intuitive aspects **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solve diffusion problems that make our global and national public take more into account our services by maintaining market presence ### 19. good CDN that performs well. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elizabeth G. | Chief Risk Officer (CRO), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** cachefly met most of my expectations, the best thing is that it has reasonable and accessible prices, as well as that it shows great reliability **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** I once had to go to technical support to request help in a process and the answers did not leave me 100% satisfied. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** with cachefly I can comfortably reach my clients regardless of where in the world they are ### 20. Really a good CDN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2017 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** I am using CacheFly CDN service for many years for our professional blog and other websites. Their origin pull is very good service. The sub user account, real time hits, FTP access, easy setup of origin pull CDN are the features which definitely reasons one should be happy to use. Users can use just FTP credentials in CMS like WordPress to integrate CacheFly CDN - there is no new learning of proprietary API. It is easy and does the job. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Cachefly is actually costly CDN. However, options for CDN with good performance is very less particularly when budget is not crossing $50/month. The web GUI is not exactly grade for the cost - it is simply designed for the work.If they had OpenStack Swift backend, it would possibly help the developers more. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** If you get Cachefly's pay as you go plan, there is nothing to look back than opening an account. They do not change the existing user's plan. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Obviously a CDN intended to serve the static contents as fast as the main dedicated server and decrease the load. Biggest advantages of Cachefly is FTP integration and easy origin pull CDN. Users can easily create a separate sub account for storing the content and separate account to mirror the whole site. ### 21. Perfect fit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav B. | Sr. developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2017 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** The Content Delivery network that comes with it is aweseme **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** There are a lot of fake/outdated links on google, please improve that **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** This is really nice tool for companies looking for content delivery networks. Special use case with wordpress. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for workdpress ### 22. Solid and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vero P. | Co-founder & Community Gal for Alfred App, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2016 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Thanks to the reliability of the Cachefly CDN, it's one thing off our minds when we need to run a big campaign. Blazingly fast, available everywhere. The Cachefly team members we've spoken to over the years have also all been helpful and friendly! **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** Nothing comes to mind. It's a great team. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing us to make our software available for download to anyone, anywhere, in a reliable way. With so many things to keep an eye on when running our campaigns, it's great to trust that our CDN will withstand our users' enthusiasm! :) ### 23. Great product, easy to use, does the job **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom N. | Senior Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2016 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** Extremely reliable, simple to use service, supported by people who know their business. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** There's not a lot to dislike. It's a simple service, well delivered. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used cachefly at Smoothwall to provide secure links to signature content. This was an efficient way to get content to customers worldwide, whilst protecting the integrity and tight distribution of the files. In my new role, I intend to use cachefly again to serve video and other content. ### 24. Great and reliable service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan S. | Owner, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2016 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** CacheFly has provided hosting to Adium (www.adium.im) for many years. They've been fast and reliable throughout. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** We haven't run into any problems.at all. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distribution of our application to users worldwide. ### 25. Review of the CacheFLy CDN network. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gregory M. | Director, Software Development, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2016 **What do you like best about CacheFly?** The service has been rock solid and has performed very well for many years. **What do you dislike about CacheFly?** I have had no dislikes at all, the service is great and the support has been there when we needed it. **Recommendations to others considering CacheFly:** The service is great and we have no issues at all with CacheFly. We have delivery Millions of files and do business world wide and for many years CacheFly has been a great business partner and provider. **What problems is CacheFly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We host files for delivery to our clients, both secured and non secured services. We have not had any delivery issues from any customers from any part of the globe. ## CacheFly Discussions - [Can I integrate CacheFly with FTP?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32339-can-i-integrate-cachefly-with-ftp) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View CacheFly pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cachefly/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+16%3A13%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=47d57f84-f23f-4add-a10f-cca3308edbb1&secure%5Btoken%5D=c2a454c984e463b39395daf315079a8d8dfb4be2f756383add7e6ca651d821a5&format=llm_user) ## CacheFly Integrations - [Red5 Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/red5-cloud/reviews) ## CacheFly Features **Content** - Static Content Caching - Dynamic Content Routing - Cache purging **Agentic AI - Content Delivery Network (CDN)** - Proactive Assistance **Security** - SSL - Custom SSL **Management** - Dashboard - Reports - Logs **Integration** - API - CMS Integration ## Top CacheFly Alternatives - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (577 reviews) - [Bunny CDN](https://www.g2.com/products/bunny-cdn/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (468 reviews) - [Gumlet](https://www.g2.com/products/gumlet/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (351 reviews)