It was bound to happen sooner or later. UK based CDN Velocix announced they will offer the first free CDN, providing 5,000GB/mo of content delivery for file download, video progressive streaming and website acceleration services at no charge.
Velocix values the service at $8,000 which breaks down to about $.13/GB transferred if the full quota is used. Not bad. Velocix no doubt hopes to lure a few of of the many startups using Amazon’s dirt cheap S3 and EC2 for content delivery. Once companies are delivering more than 5,000 GB and comfortable with the Velocix service, it’s less likely they will leave.
5TB/month is 15mbps of bandwidth which is quite a lot. I don’t think they can sustain it for many users for long time. It seems like a cheap advert to me. And I am using EC2 presently.
Try it! I got a nice note that said it was a closed beta. See my post @
http://www.cdnevangelist.com/2008/04/29/just-when-you-thought-the-price-couldnt-go-any-lower/
Interesting…guess it makes sense they would weed out companies that don’t have potential to outgrow their free service.
what are the free CDN networks available and from where we can download them.