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CDN Technology Uncovered
06 Aug 2015

CDN Technology Uncovered

A few people can believe in this now, but CDN technology was born not so long ago – in the middle of nineties. Less than twenty years ago, in 1996, the first patent for this technology was registered. Since then much has happened. First commercial Content Distribution Network operator appeared two years after the first patent – in 1998 year. After that and until nowadays, content delivery industry had come through several ups and downs. The biggest growth of [...]
CDN network architecture
04 Aug 2015

CDN Network Architecture

Content Delivery Network (CDN) is the main artery, through which users from all over the world receive the media content and other information. Actually, Content Distribution Networkchanged the way how large files delivering to end users. These changes can be called revolutionary. This has been made possible due to CDN network architecture. CDN have to deliver file access and caching features to end users. That is why it should contain such elements as request, distribution and delivery. The first element [...]
06 Jul 2015

New Features Available on Our CDN Platform!

New features are available on our CDN platform! You can enable token authentication on streaming CDN services, please refer to Setting a Token Authentication - protect your CDN content for more details. (Please note that you can also enable token authentication on static CDN services) You can set HTTP or HTTPS protocol for pull requests from our CDN edge servers to your origin server, please refer to Setting an Origin Protocol for more details. You can limit CDN service usage on a [...]
Streaming Media
25 Jun 2015

The Ultimate Guide to Pseudo Streaming

A pseudo streaming is the transfer of digital media files from a server to a client, typically using the HTTP protocol when initiated from a computer. The consumer may begin playback of the media before the download is complete. The key difference between true streaming and pseudo streaming is in how the digital media data is received and stored by the end user device that is accessing the digital media. Read in our CDN knowledge base about pseudo streaming Differences between [...]
Network distribution system
22 Jun 2015

Network distribution system

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are based on systems of multiple data centers. Such centers are distributed all over the globe to locate data geographically closer to the end user. Every time new request appears in a concrete geographic place, CDN temporary copies requested data to the closestCDN server. If this request will be regular, then data will be stored. Users will get requested data from the closest CDN server, that has such content. Actually, proximity is not the only [...]
Companies that provide fastest CDN
19 Jun 2015

Companies that provide fastest CDN

There are plenty of content distribution companies that provide their services all over the globe. Over twenty of them can be selected as noticeable players, over ten - as the most popular CDN (Content Delivery Network) companies. Usually online-businesses compare these companies on such characteristics as number of PoPs, their presence in different regions, security settings, service flexibility and price policy. These characteristics help to find out which company provides the most useful service for a concrete business. However, the connectivity is not less important [...]
CDN security
15 Jun 2015

CDN security questions

Bigger growth of CDN use among all kind of businesses puts bigger queries for a security. The need to protect CDN data arises from the essence of Content Delivery Network mechanism. CDNs are based on a principle of geographically close location of data to end users. That makes request time from the server faster. As a result, the website performance is improving too. To make this possible, CDN customers allow CDN's to locate the selected data on the edge servers. Some of CDN companies have a [...]
CDN CloudFront
10 Jun 2015

All You Need To Know About CDN CloudFront

Many businesses over the globe now days use the CDN technology to improve an interconnection with their customers. CDNs or Content Delivery Networks are large distributed systems of servers around the world. They are deployed in data centers across the Internet to improve data delivery. Due to the CDN, the end user gets requested data faster. The mechanism of this technology can be simply described as follows. Data is stored not only on the main server, but on a [...]
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04 Jun 2015

MODX CDN Integration

MODX is a free, open source content management system and web application framework for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. MODX is licensed under the GPL, is written in the PHP programming language, and supports MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server as the database. Visit the CDNsun knowledge base for MODX CDN integration how-to. View the MODX CDN plugin on GitHub. Sincerely your CDNsun team. Sources: Wikipedia , MODX.today
Software CDN solutions
22 May 2015

Software CDN solutions

Response time of servers is the most important metric from all, that are using to monitor Content Delivery Networks. Such monitoring helps to find out the problems and to use right CDN solutions. One of the most weighty factors to improve a response time of CDN servers is to use a right software. There are plenty of software decisions, that are available for webmasters. Most of server software reviews include from ten to thirty products. Most of them are [...]