CDNsun Blog

15 Sep 2025

HLS vs DASH: Choosing the Right Protocol for Live Streaming

The landscape of live streaming has evolved dramatically over the past decade, with two major adaptive bitrate streaming protocols dominating the market: HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). As content delivery networks continue to play a crucial role in delivering seamless streaming experiences, understanding the nuances between these protocols becomes essential for developers, content creators, and streaming service providers. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore both protocols, their strengths, weaknesses, and how they integrate with [...]

28 Jul 2025

Speech to Text for Ubuntu

If you've recently joined the growing number of developers embracing Cursor – the AI-first code editor – you've likely experienced a paradigm shift in your workflow. The power of AI at your fingertips, generating and refining code, is truly transformative. However, if you're working on Ubuntu, you might have quickly discovered a missing piece: the ability to seamlessly use speech to text for your AI interactions. You have this incredible power, and your natural instinct is to speak to it. [...]

31 May 2024

Why ConnectBot is the best SSH client for Android. Comparison with JuiceSSH and Termius.

This is my own personal experience, a story about looking for and finding the best SSH client for my Android phone. My requirements were the following: I was looking for a free SSH client for Android 14 with agent forwarding. By agent forwarding, I mean that I want to be able to connect to a server, and from that server, I want to be able to connect to another server. For that, you need agent forwarding; otherwise, you will [...]

16 Nov 2023

The Evolution of HTTP: Paving the Way for a Faster Web

In this post, we'll take you on a historical tour, exploring the evolution of HTTP from its humble beginnings to the cutting-edge HTTP/2. Join us as we unravel the technological advancements that have shaped the way we experience the web today. The story begins in 1991 with Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a simple protocol to accompany the nascent World Wide Web. HTTP/0.9 was born – a one-line protocol that facilitated the transfer of hypertext documents. Imagine a single ASCII string [...]

26 Jul 2023

Mastering cURL Online: A Practical Guide for HTTP Debugging

For a web developer, troubleshooting and optimizing websites require a toolkit of flexible, reliable utilities. One such tool that should never be overlooked is cURL online, an indispensable open-source command-line tool used for transferring data over various protocols. Among its myriad uses, cURL excels in debugging HTTP issues, making it a powerful ally for any web developer. Today, we'll deep dive into this topic, covering everything from the basic concept of HTTP requests and responses to using cURL in [...]

27 Dec 2020

The Unexpected Business Benefits of Using a CDN

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Unexpected business benefits of using a CDN are the indirect advantages one gains from the performance provided by a Content Delivery Network platform. Page load speeds, application performance, and a great user experience have always been vital components in any online strategy. However, as the world continues to embrace digital solutions, focusing on these requirements is now more critical than ever. As almost every aspect of our daily lives starts or ends with an online service, organizations that operate [...]

13 Dec 2020

Microsoft Clarity – Can it Replace Google Analytics?

Microsoft Clarity is a website analytics tool that provides insights into site visitation and user interaction. The platform offers free visitor statistics, session recordings, and heatmaps providing site operators with a better understanding of user behavior. Launched at the end of October 2020 and created to help developers manage websites, Microsoft Clarity delivers the information you need to make informed design decisions. For years Google Analytics has been the leading website analytics platform. Its dominant role in providing website operators with [...]

30 Nov 2020

Blockchain Delivery Enhancement with a CDN

Blockchain is an emerging technology that has grown in popularity with innovators and solution architects over the past few years. With real-world use cases that range from the confidential sharing of medical data to supply chain monitoring, this platform offers any organization a secure system to store and retrieve transactional information. At its core, blockchain is a database. It differs from traditional databases by the method it uses to store and retrieve information. As it records data in virtual blocks, [...]

17 Nov 2020

Artificial Intelligence – Categorizing the Continuum

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a complex and diverse field. In computer science, it refers to numerous technologies and frameworks that encompass an ever-evolving area of specialty. Focusing on creating machines and systems that need no human intervention to perform tasks and make decisions, understanding AI can be overwhelming. Machine learning, speech recognition assistants such as Alexa and Siri, and even the algorithm that recommends movies for you on Netflix are some of the examples we encounter daily. As advances [...]