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Overview
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The explosive growth of Internet-based services has increased the need for web expansion, as well as better Quality of Service (QoS) in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions. CDN services speed the delivery of applications to distributed audiences, allowing for better customer engagement and a stronger online presence.
Whether you need to improve website performance, accelerate applications, or stream live video, we can consult on and broker the content delivery capability your business requires.
The StrataCore team will work with you to complete an IT infrastructure assessment, then quickly go to market to find the best CDN providers and services for your specific business and infrastructure needs.
What is a CDN
What is a Content Delivery Network?
Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a delivery method used by broadband internet access providers in distributing large quantities of internet content from different servers. It distributes content across the world by distributing the same content as requested by the client. It makes downloading faster and less expensive, while providing quality service.
Many companies use a CDN or Content Delivery Network services to store everything from website pages to videos, downloadable documents, software clients for games and email, presentations, web collaboration tools, photo and graphic images, databases, and web application interfaces.
CDN offers a network of servers that store content and deliver it to an audience spread across any area, domestic or globally.
Companies can keep needed content on the CDN server closest to the end user, wherever they are, to speed up the page load time and avoid network bottlenecks. Content Delivery Networks CDN can also be used to host web performance optimization and application acceleration solutions that can speed the delivery of web content even more.
The number of CDN servers and server locations is determined by the need for coverage across a region. CDN service can be localized to a single company, or networked with other CDN servers elsewhere, to deliver content to a regional audience.
This type of small-scale CDN would support a business with its audience localized in one region, such as a chain of department stores, technology company or local cable TV network. The largest CDNs cover the entire world and use CDN servers located in large cities in various countries to deliver content and applications to enterprise users and consumers.
A Dual CDN or Multi CDN strategy further improves latency and uptime on a global scale for businesses needing to maximize web performance.
- CDN providers perform differently in different geographical regions
- Not all CDN providers are as reliable as others
- Not all CDN providers offer the same features and services
What are CDN Benefits?
Faster delivery of site content
Protection and security from malicious traffic
Minimal interruption of the end-user
Better website loading
Higher scalability
Better user experience
Decreased bandwidth consumption
Efficiency
How to achieve CDN delivery efficiency?
CDN delivery speeds will vary based upon how quickly the CDN servers process requests for the content. If your site isn’t receiving requests for fast content as quickly as possible, then your site will feel the slowdown.
To guarantee fast CDN delivery, you should have open websites that are served from the same CDN servers as your customer base. This will ensure fast CDN delivery and allow content to be delivered on time regardless of where you’re located.
CDN delivery is best achieved when the content is served directly to customers as fast as possible. CDN-delivery providers understand this perfectly, and they work hard to deliver very accurate delivery times.
To ensure that they do this as accurately as possible, they must use a content delivery network (CDN) hop. These hops take content from the web server and send it out to your customer’s requested web application security system first.
Then, the requested application fires it back up to the web application security system, which sends it on its way. This is how CDN achieves near-instant delivery times.
With so many users around the world accessing your website content at the same time, there’s a good chance that at any given moment some users may be trying to access content that’s not ready yet.
If you have slow CDN delivery, this content may be sitting waiting on your servers to be served, slowing down your website. To combat this, content providers make their websites available in ” batches ” quadrants “. This means that a website appears to load slowly because multiple users are accessing it at once, but only one user is downloading the content.
The next factor in CDN delivery efficiency is called caching content.
CDN allows customers to cache content once it has been downloaded and is ready for display. Each time a user visits your site, they’ll see the latest new content instead of being shown the old content that they’ve already seen.
This ensures that your users always have fresh content, even if your site serves old content.
How to Choose
How to choose the best CDN provider?
Finding a high quality CDN providers can be an intimidating task. There are many options out there today, and it can seem like you’re not making any progress as you try to find the right provider for your web hosting needs.
That’s because so many of the choices that you make when selecting a provider for your CDN services will have a direct impact on your bottom line. However, Top CDN providers have one thing in common: they all must deliver the top content delivery networks to their customers.
When thinking about your CDN needs, you should first ask what sort of results you’d like to achieve. Do you need instant CDN response times? Are you looking for a way to increase bandwidth capacity without slowing down your site? Would you like to have real-time streaming media on all your pages?
The top CDN services are rated based upon how robust their back-office network is, and this also has a direct bearing on how fast your site will load and how well it’s designed to adapt to real-time internet traffic.
There are several factors that can affect your CDN response times, such as your location, the average number of visitors to your site, and even how many times a month you open. Some CDN service providers can even offer more than one server per continent. If your needs include real-time application updates and user experience improvements across multiple continents, then, take advantage of multiple CDN servers.
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