CacheFly is a premium private CDN founded in 2002. See its Anycast network, BestHop routing, pricing tiers, and who it's best suited for in 2026.
CacheFly's origins go back to Downloadhosting.com, a 1999 file-distribution service for small software developers founded by CTO Matt Levine. Building on that foundation, the company launched the CacheFly CDN brand and, between 2002 and 2005, became one of the earliest providers to pioneer TCP Anycast-based content delivery, a technique that automatically routes user requests to the nearest or best-performing server location.
That early Anycast investment has remained central to CacheFly's identity: its network now spans more than 75 points of presence across all seven continents, and its proprietary BestHop technology continuously evaluates and selects the fastest available path between customer origin infrastructure and end users.
CacheFly focuses heavily on media and entertainment (especially video-on-demand and live streaming), gaming (game patch and asset delivery), and ad-tech customers, sectors where fast, consistent content delivery has a direct and measurable impact on revenue and user experience.
Recent product investments, highlighted at NAB Show 2026, include Advanced Analytics for deeper visibility into traffic and performance, an EdgeControl JavaScript engine for running custom logic at the network edge, and Terraform integration that lets engineering teams manage CDN configuration as code, reflecting an effort to keep pace with modern DevOps and edge-computing expectations.
Unlike many CDN providers that require a sales call for any pricing information, CacheFly publishes a tiered pricing structure directly on its site. The Developer tier is free for up to 100 GB of monthly usage with a per-gigabyte overage charge; the Business tier starts around 300 dollars per month for a 10 terabyte allotment and scales up through higher data tiers with progressively lower overage rates.
The Enterprise tier starts around 2,000 dollars per month at the 100 terabyte level and scales toward 500 terabytes, including priority support via a dedicated Slack channel, while a High Volume tier offers fully custom, quote-based pricing for petabyte-scale customers who need private CDN nodes and additional security and integration support.
CacheFly traces its roots to 1999 (as Downloadhosting.com) and launched its CacheFly CDN brand with Anycast-based delivery between 2002 and 2005, making it one of the longer-running CDN providers in the industry.
Yes, CacheFly remains a privately held, independent company, headquartered in the Chicago, Illinois area with a fully remote team of roughly 26 employees.
CacheFly focuses primarily on media and entertainment (video-on-demand and live streaming), gaming, and ad-tech customers who depend on fast, reliable content delivery.
Yes, CacheFly offers a free Developer tier that includes up to 100 GB of monthly usage with a per-gigabyte overage charge.
Pricing is tiered and published: the Developer tier is free up to 100 GB, Business plans start around $300 per month for 10 TB, Enterprise plans start around $2,000 per month for 100 TB, and High Volume petabyte-scale plans are custom-quoted.
BestHop is CacheFly's proprietary routing technology that automatically evaluates and selects the fastest path between a customer's origin server and end users across its global network.
Yes, CacheFly supports multi-CDN architectures, allowing customers to use it alongside other CDN providers for redundancy and failover.
CacheFly is headquartered in the Chicago, Illinois area, with an address associated with Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and operates with a fully remote team spread across multiple continents.