✔ Stack Path review

📄 Editorial Review

🔧 Services: Web HostingDNS (Domain Name System)CDN (Content Delivery Network)
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Established in 2015, StackPath managed to emerge from stealth in 2016. Cloud-based platform, they provide services from other hosts on the internet, such as Highwinds, Encrypt.me, MaxCDN, Fireblade or Server Density.

StackPath is specialized in providing especially CDN (Content Delivery Network), but they also have a set of DNS plans and virtual machines available. With CDN, StackPath guarantees a good control of caching. It is customizable in terms of security, SEO or delivery as it includes EdgeRules and there is instant purge available that eliminates immediately any content you delete from their CDN. To maintain protection, a free private EdgeSSL is provided with any CDN plan. By purchasing one CDN plan, you also get HTTP/2 server push and HTTP/2 support. For faster delivery and lower bandwidth cost, GZIP compression allows you to reduce the size of files or texts. What is an advantage is the fact that the setup of any plan is simply done. Virtual machines are built to provide custom systems for easy management or website building.

StackPath was designed for anyone interested in computing infrastructure and services, but it is mainly dedicated to developers. Customers can build whatever they want in their platform, from API and websites to apps. Probably this is what makes the difference between StackPath and other deliver managed edge services: they use a full cloud platform. This uses origin agnostic (enabling integration of private or public cloud safely) and it is created to accommodate to any new hardware or software technologies without requiring massive changes. For good security, it includes DDoS attack mitigation. There is good scalability available on their platform.

💰 Price & Cost

Given their state-of-the-art servers and rich features, StackPath comes with affordable prices. No mention of a money-back policy.

⌛ Reliability

They offer highly desirable uptime guarantee – 100%. Few companies in the hosting industry manage to promise their customers perfect uptime all the time.

🏢 Data Center

StackPath is an American company situated in Dallas, Texas (USA) that owes 45 edge locations. These are all integrated in their automatic platform. All their locations run on high quality infrastructure generated by top-notch routers and layer-3 network. All these locations are scalable throughput as they perform on 10/25/40/100 Gbps. They have state-of-the-art tier-1 carriers and guarantee efficient performance that protects servers from downtime. They are proud to announce that they have around 2,600 peering partners, over 49,000 visible ASNs, as well as more than 28,000 ASNs present worldwide.
Their network carriers are located in:
•North America (Verizon, NTT, ATT, Cogent, etc.);
•Asia-Pacific (CenturyLink/Level 3, TATA, Telstra, etc);
•Australia and New Zealand (CenturyLink/Level 3, Telstra, Optus);
•Europe (CenturyLink/Level3, NTT, Telia, Cogent, etc.);
•South America (NTT, CenturyLink/Level3, LANautilus, etc.);

✍️ Customer Support

Technical assistance can be requested through phone, chat, ticket support and e-mail. There are no additional prices for requesting assistance. Support is available 24/7.

🔨 Control Panel

They guarantee a user-friendly control panel available at StackPath. No mention of using cPanel or Plesk whatsoever.

🎯 Conclusion

StackPath promises reliability and flexibility with their plans. Support is available all the time, so in case of emergencies, they can be contacted easily. For some, the fact that they do not use cPanel or Plesk can be a little disappointing for some customers who are accustomed to these control panels, but this is a rather subjective inconvenience. StackPath is not too pricey and it provides customers with efficient packages.

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