The video CDN that puts your whole library close to every viewer.

A video CDN (video content delivery network) is a network of servers that caches your video close to viewers so playback starts quickly and streams smoothly at scale. Unlike a general-purpose CDN tuned for static files, a video CDN handles adaptive-bitrate streaming, large segmented files, and live traffic.

You upload a video once and Castr stores it, transcodes it, and caches copies on Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront edge servers around the world. When a viewer presses play, the player fetches the file from the closest edge instead of a distant origin. That is how CDN video streaming keeps a global library responsive without you running any delivery infrastructure.

Castr is not tied to one network. Your hosted video library is cached on multiple CDNs, Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront, with automatic failover between them behind a 99.9% uptime SLA. If one provider has a regional problem, delivery shifts to another network and playback continues.

Video hosting stores your files and gives you a player, while a video CDN moves those files close to viewers so they play fast everywhere. Hosting without edge delivery serves every viewer from one origin, which slows distant regions. Castr bundles both, so CDN video hosting comes built in rather than as a separate contract.

The best video CDN for a single-region audience could be almost any network. The differences show up globally and under load. That is why the best CDN for video streaming for most teams is a multi-CDN setup rather than one network. Castr delivers over Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront with automatic failover, and pairs delivery with hosting, transcoding, and a player.

The best CDN for video hosting treats storage and delivery as one product. Castr plans include both, from 100 GB of storage with 200 GB of monthly bandwidth on Starter to 3 TB of storage with 10 TB of bandwidth on Events, with custom volume beyond that, so a growing library does not add a per-GB egress bill from a second vendor.

Free CDN video streaming tiers come with hard trade-offs: bandwidth caps, forced player branding, and no delivery commitment. Castr offers a 7-day Starter trial with no credit card, so you can test the video CDN with your own files and audience before paying.

Compare video CDN providers on global reach, adaptive-bitrate support, security controls, analytics, and how bandwidth is billed. A managed video CDN like Castr bundles hosting, transcoding, and a branded player with multi-CDN delivery, so you evaluate one platform instead of assembling five products.

Those providers sell raw delivery capacity: you still build and operate the origin, packaging, player, security, and analytics around them, and pay per GB delivered. Castr is a managed video CDN that bundles hosting, transcoding, a branded player, and analytics, and delivers your library across Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront with automatic failover, for a plan fee rather than per-GB egress.

Raw CDNs bill per GB delivered, which makes a viral video a billing event. Castr includes a bandwidth allowance in every plan, from 200 GB per month on Starter to 10 TB on Events, and larger audiences are sized with the sales team, so delivery costs stay predictable.

Yes. Embed the Castr player via link or iframe on any plan, or take a direct HLS URL for hosted videos into your own player and OTT apps on Ultra and higher.

Yes. The same multi-CDN network delivers live events, with 40+ ingest locations for RTMP and SRT contribution. This page covers on-demand delivery. See the live streaming CDN page for live workflows like transcoding ladders, monitoring, and recording.

Yes. Castr’s video team will walk through your current setup, from sources and destinations to audience scale, security, and monetization, and confirm the fit before you migrate.