Baishan Cloud CDN

Overview

BaishanCloud (stock code: 02370.HK), founded in 2015 and headquartered in Guian New Area, Guizhou, is a Chinese edge-cloud CDN provider driven by "CDN acceleration + edge computing." From its founding, Baishan Cloud focused on the enterprise CDN market, becoming the strongest overseas-capable differentiator among Chinese CDN vendors through forward-looking overseas node investment. After listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2022, it accelerated R&D on edge computing and security products, now forming a complete product matrix covering CDN delivery, edge function computing, DDoS protection, WAF, and SD-WAN networking, with 700+ edge nodes across 50+ countries and over 10 billion daily requests.

At the product capability level, Baishan Cloud CDN's core differentiator is high-density global node coverage. Unlike most Chinese CDN vendors prioritizing domestic nodes, Baishan Cloud built its overseas network from the ground up, with node density in emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa surpassing Alibaba Cloud CDN and Tencent Cloud EdgeOne. Its edge computing platform supports running JavaScript and WebAssembly custom code on CDN nodes for request rewriting, content assembly, A/B testing, and other business logic at the edge without origin fetch. Complete requirements planning before selection to clarify target user geographic distribution and latency requirements.

Key Strengths

• Overseas Node Density Leads Chinese CDN Vendors: Baishan Cloud operates 700+ edge nodes across 50+ countries, covering Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and North America. Multi-ISP access and Anycast technology ensure global users connect to the nearest node, with measured APAC static content TTFB of 30-60ms and 60-100ms in Europe and North America. Overseas teams can go live with global acceleration within 1-2 business days.
• Mature Edge Computing Platform: Supports running custom JavaScript and WebAssembly code on CDN nodes for request filtering, URL rewriting, header injection, content assembly, API aggregation, and A/B testing. Compared to traditional CDN's origin-pull model, edge computing reduces processing latency by 50%+ while significantly reducing origin bandwidth. The platform provides an online IDE debugging tool and canary release capability, seamlessly integrating into existing DevOps pipelines.
• Integrated Security Protection: Natively integrates DDoS protection and WAF without requiring additional security products. DDoS protection uses a proprietary traffic scrubbing algorithm to automatically detect and mitigate L3/L4 volumetric attacks and L7 CC attacks, with 1T+ scrubbing capacity and under 5ms latency impact. WAF provides OWASP Top-10 protection, custom rules engine, Bot management, and IP blacklist/whitelist, building multi-layer security from network to application layer.
• Full-Site and Dynamic Acceleration (DCDN): Optimizes non-cacheable dynamic requests (APIs, login, real-time queries) through intelligent routing, TCP optimization, connection multiplexing, and real-time link quality probing, automatically avoiding congested network paths. Dynamic request RTT is reduced by 30%-40% compared to direct origin connections, with minute-level API anomaly detection and automatic link switching via monitoring systems.
• SD-WAN and Multi-Cloud Networking: Beyond CDN, offers SD-WAN enterprise networking solutions that optimize branch traffic through Baishan Cloud's global backbone. For multinational enterprises, the CDN + SD-WAN combination solves both user-side content acceleration and internal network connectivity.

Product Ecosystem

Edge Computing Platform

Supports running JavaScript and WebAssembly custom functions on 700+ edge nodes, with online IDE, canary release, and real-time monitoring. Developers can write edge functions for request rewriting, URL rewriting, header injection, content assembly, API aggregation, and A/B testing. Billed per invocation + resource consumption, with millisecond-level cold starts, suitable for building Serverless edge applications.

DCDN Dynamic Content Acceleration

For non-cacheable APIs, dynamic pages, and login sessions, intelligent routing probes network link quality and dynamically avoids congested nodes, combined with TCP optimization and connection reuse to reduce cross-ISP RTT by 30%-40%. Supports QUIC and HTTP/2 multiplexing, especially effective on mobile weak networks.

Security Protection System

Natively integrated DDoS protection (1T+ scrubbing capacity) and WAF (OWASP Top-10, custom rules, Bot management) without extra security products. Combined with SD-WAN enterprise networking, provides a complete security-acceleration integration solution from network to application layer.

Limitations

• Insufficient Domestic Node Density: Baishan Cloud CDN has approximately 300+ domestic nodes (mainly provincial capitals and some prefecture-level cities), far behind Alibaba Cloud CDN's 2800+ nodes and Tencent Cloud EdgeOne's 2600+ nodes. User experience in third- and fourth-tier cities may not match domestic CDN leaders. For domestic-focused businesses, adopt a hybrid architecture with "Baishan Cloud for overseas + Alibaba Cloud CDN or Tencent Cloud EdgeOne for domestic," using multi-CDN load balancing for unified traffic scheduling.
• Brand Awareness Needs Improvement: In the Chinese market, Baishan Cloud's brand recognition is far behind Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Huawei Cloud, as well as older CDN vendors like Wangsu and ChinaCache. Offer free POC testing, publish third-party performance monitoring reports, and secure benchmark customer cases. Compare measured data from at least 3 vendors during selection.
• Less Comprehensive Product Line: Product matrix focuses on CDN, edge computing, and security, lacking IaaS resources (cloud servers, object storage, databases). Baishan Cloud CDN typically serves as an acceleration layer on top of other cloud vendors' infrastructure—a common multi-cloud best practice. Plan the cloud-resource and CDN collaboration architecture in advance.
• Higher Pricing than Domestic Leaders: Pricing targets mid-to-large enterprises, with per-GB traffic costs 15%-30% higher than Alibaba Cloud CDN and Tencent Cloud EdgeOne. For monthly traffic under 10TB, value is lower than Qiniu and Upyun. Small traffic users should evaluate Qiniu or use CDN cost optimization strategies to improve cache hit ratio.

Use Cases

• Overseas Expansion & Global SaaS Platforms (★★★★★): Baishan Cloud CDN offers the broadest overseas node coverage among Chinese CDN vendors, making it a priority for overseas-expanding businesses. Whether e-commerce independent sites, social apps, game publishing, or enterprise SaaS, it provides global acceleration across 50+ countries. Pair with Cloudflare for deeper coverage in South America and Africa.
• Edge Computing Applications (★★★★★): For scenarios requiring custom logic at the CDN edge (dynamic page rendering, API response aggregation, crawler filtering, multi-size image generation), Baishan Cloud's edge computing platform provides a complete runtime with canary release tools.
• Cross-Border Hybrid CDN Architecture (★★★★): For businesses with both domestic and overseas users, Baishan Cloud CDN is the best overseas branch for a "domestic CDN + overseas CDN" hybrid architecture. Typical setup: domestic traffic via Alibaba Cloud CDN or Tencent Cloud EdgeOne, overseas traffic via Baishan Cloud CDN, with DNS intelligent resolution for geo-routing. See Multi-CDN Load Balancing.
• Gaming & Live Streaming Overseas (★★★★): Game update distribution, real-time PvP API acceleration, and live streaming push/pull have extremely high demands on CDN bandwidth, latency, and concurrency. Baishan Cloud CDN's high node density in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, plus large file chunking, HTTP/2 multiplexing, and QUIC acceleration, make it ideal for gaming and entertainment global distribution.
• Enterprise Security + Acceleration Integration (★★★★): For enterprises needing both acceleration and security, Baishan Cloud CDN's natively integrated DDoS protection and WAF make it ideal for security-acceleration integration, effectively protecting against common Web application attacks.

Pricing

Prices are market references. Enterprises with 100TB+ monthly consumption can get significant discounts via annual framework agreements. See CDN cost control for details.

FAQ

• Core difference from Alibaba Cloud CDN? Alibaba Cloud CDN has the most domestic nodes and the most complete ecosystem, suitable for domestic-focused enterprises. Baishan Cloud CDN's overseas node density leads domestic peers, better for Chinese businesses with global operations. See domestic and international CDN comparisons.
• How does edge computing compare to AWS Lambda@Edge? Baishan Cloud's edge computing platform supports JavaScript and WebAssembly runtimes with a simpler deployment flow—write functions in an online IDE and deploy globally in one click. Lambda@Edge is richer in function execution duration (typically limited to 5 seconds here) and ecosystem integration. For lightweight request/response scenarios, Baishan Cloud's edge computing suffices—see edge computing and CDN convergence.
• Does it support HTTPS and HTTP/2/QUIC? Yes. Custom SSL/TLS certificate upload and managed certificates, TLS 1.2/1.3, OCSP Stapling, and HSTS, plus full HTTP/2 and QUIC (HTTP/3) support. See CDN SSL/TLS configuration best practices.
• Does it require ICP filing? If using Baishan Cloud domestic nodes to accelerate users in mainland China, ICP filing is required. Pure overseas scenarios using only overseas nodes do not require filing. For dual-stack scenarios, file domestic domains for domestic nodes and use separate overseas domains for overseas nodes—per the cross-border CDN guide.