Monthly Archives: November 2025

26 Nov 2025

Cloudflare vs Fastly (vs CDNsun): Which CDN Fits Your Business Reality in 2026?

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Choosing between Cloudflare vs Fastly for your CDN needs often comes down to answering these fundamental questions: Do you need a comprehensive security and performance platform, or reliable content delivery with personalized support? Are you prepared to pay enterprise prices for features you might never use? Do you need the absolute fastest cache purging, or is standard instant purging sufficient? Do you want granular control over which specific cities serve your content, or are you happy with basic configuration [...]

24 Nov 2025

CloudFront vs Fastly (vs CDNsun): Which CDN Fits Your Business Needs in 2026?

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Choosing between Amazon CloudFront and Fastly for your content delivery needs often comes down to these fundamental questions that most comparison articles ignore: Are you already invested in the AWS ecosystem, or do you need a standalone CDN that works across multiple cloud providers? Do you need instant content updates globally, or can you work with standard cache invalidation times? Are you streaming live events or distributing video content that requires specialized CDN capabilities? Do you have irregular usage [...]

16 Nov 2025

CDN Traffic Steering Guide DNS Anycast Layer 7 Multi CDN P2P

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Choosing the right CDN architecture is no longer just about “having a CDN.” Today, providers use very different traffic steering technologies to decide which edge server (or even which peer) will serve each request. In this article we walk through the main models—DNS-based, Anycast, application-layer steering, multi-CDN, and P2P CDNs—explaining how they work, how they differ, and where each shines. Modern CDNs are primarily differentiated not only by their footprint or capacity, but by how they decide which edge node [...]

13 Nov 2025

Fastly vs Akamai (vs CDNsun): Which CDN Fits Your Business in 2026?

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If you're comparing Fastly vs Akamai for your content delivery needs, you're probably wrestling with a choice between two industry giants. Fastly promises developer empowerment with instant configuration changes and edge computing capabilities. Akamai offers the world's largest CDN network with enterprise-grade security and reliability. But here's the uncomfortable truth: both platforms are built for organizations with dedicated technical teams and substantial budgets. What if you just need reliable, fast content delivery without the complexity or the premium price tags? The [...]

05 Nov 2025

Free Linux Streaming Software for Server Side HLS

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Free Streaming Software for Linux: Server‑Side HLS You Can Deploy Today Looking for free streaming software for Linux servers? This guide from CDNsun’s tech blog compares actively maintained, no‑cost server‑side engines for live HLS delivery—NGINX with RTMP Module, Red5, FFmpeg, SRS, MistServer, and Nimble Streamer—and shows minimal, reproducible setups. We focus strictly on origins and ingest/transmuxing on Linux, not web players, so you can get production results faster. Choosing a Free Linux Streaming Server: Strengths, Trade‑offs, and When to Use Each [...]