Hosting Review
Fastly
Deep Dive Analysis
Fastly is an edge cloud and CDN with programmable edge compute and very fast cache purging.
Target Audience
Teams that need control over caching behaviour at the edge.
The Final Verdict
"Powerful for teams who will use the programmability. Simple static sites do not need it."
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What we checked
Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.