Akamai vs Incapsula: Comparative Review

Security vulnerabilities, targeted attacks, accelerated delivery or volatile latency – whatever your reason for searching out an ADC (Application Delivery Controller), the goal is the same: workdays and weekends without worry, site performance that will never embarrass you, and victory over challenges to your company website’s happy functioning. So choosing the right ADC might not make for a good war story, but why not let your ADC service play the hero when it comes to keeping your site running securely and efficiently?

High quality solutions are no longer just for those willing to spend big or settle for solutions with less robust features. Incapsula, an up-and-coming company, pushes the envelope of cloud-based CDN technology and presents a challenge to industry leader, Akamai.

But can Incapsula’s technology really compete? To answer this we compare both platforms, feature to feature, looking at such aspects as acceleration capabilities, web application security, DDoS protection, availability services, and – of course – cost of service.

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