Category Archives: CDN Streaming

Secure HLS on CDNsun | URL Signing & Access Control
11 Feb 2026

Secure HLS on CDNsun with URL Signing and Access Control

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Secure HLS on CDNsun HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) is easy to deliver at scale, but it is also easy to steal: a single leaked .m3u8 can be shared, embedded elsewhere, or used for unauthorized restreaming. Because HLS is built from playlists and many small segments, protecting only one URL is rarely enough. This article explains how to secure HLS on CDNsun using URL signing and complementary controls like hotlinking, geo-blocking, IP rules, and password protection. URL signing for HLS on CDNsun: [...]
Low-Latency HLS with CDN | 2–3s Live Streams Guide | CDNsun
21 Jan 2026

Low Latency HLS with CDN: The Ultimate Production Guide

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The Ultimate Guide to Low-Latency HLS with CDN: From Theory to Production Live streaming for sports, betting, gaming and auctions demands delays under a few seconds. Traditional HLS cannot keep up, often adding 20–30 seconds of lag. Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS) closes this gap to around 2–3 seconds while still leveraging global CDN infrastructure. This guide explains how LL-HLS works and how to implement it end‑to‑end with a CDN. Low-Latency HLS Fundamentals: Why CDNs Matter Standard HLS was designed for reliability and large‑scale [...]
Free Linux HLS Streaming Software | Deploy Today | CDNsun
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 [...]
CDN: The Technical Backbone of Modern Live Streaming
20 Oct 2025

CDN: The Technical Backbone of Modern Live Streaming (And Why Latency is the Ultimate Challenge)

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Welcome to the CDNsun blog. As a Content Delivery Network (CDN) company specializing in high-performance delivery, we understand that modern live streaming is less about content and more about complex, distributed systems engineering. The internet's demand for real-time video has exploded, transcending simple entertainment to become critical infrastructure for commerce, education, and global events. This article dissects the role of the CDN in fulfilling these demands. It explores three technically challenging live streaming scenarios, demonstrating how the CDN architecture—with its [...]
Advanced HLS Streaming Optimization with CDN for Global Delivery
06 Oct 2025

Advanced HLS Streaming Optimization with CDN for Global Delivery

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Delivering high-quality HLS streaming to viewers worldwide is more than encoding video—it’s about how efficiently your CDN stream distributes content. Advanced strategies for segment delivery, caching, and edge optimization are key to minimizing latency, preventing buffering, and scaling efficiently. HLS divides video into small chunks (2–10 seconds). When a viewer requests a stream: The player requests the master playlist (.m3u8). Based on the viewer’s bandwidth, the appropriate variant playlist is selected. Segments are requested sequentially, typically from [...]
HLS vs DASH
15 Sep 2025

HLS vs DASH: Choosing the Right Protocol for Live Streaming

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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 [...]
CDN Gaming
09 Jul 2019

Scaling and Securing a Gaming Service with a CDN

Online gaming is a significant Internet market, and for many organizations around the globe, a revenue-generating business that continues to grow exponentially. With over 2.5 billion video gamers around the world, this industry is expected to be worth over 90 billion U.S. dollars by 2020. For game developers having infrastructure that can host their service while providing gamers with a superior experience is vital to their success. As their player base is effectively their revenue engine, gaming service providers need to ensure their infrastructure can scale and [...]
HTTP2 CDN
12 Sep 2018

RTMP Streaming – Why the Right CDN is Essential

The Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a streaming technology created for high-performance live transmission of audio and video media files over the Internet. Developed by Macromedia in 2002, which was subsequently acquired by Adobe, RTMP was created to enable the transfer of multimedia files utilizing Adobe’s Flash-based platform. However, as support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) gains traction, many Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers no longer offer direct support for RTMP streaming which may impact producers who require low [...]
Artificial Intelligence AI
03 Sep 2018

HLS – Everything You Need to Know About HTTP Live Streaming

Developed by Apple in 2009, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) allows content producers to send live and on-demand audio and video using standard HTTP, the protocol which powers the web. The Internet we know and use, with every website capable of playing video, images, and music, was not always as interactive as it is today. When the first web page came online in the mid-1990’s text was the order of the day. The rich media experience we have come to [...]
RTMP streaming
19 Jul 2018

RTMP Streaming – Fastest Streaming Technology to Date

Over the past decade, video content has been on the rise and it never showed any sign of slowing. During the last 5 years especially, the statistical analysis of the video content market has been going crazy. Here are some facts: Mobile video consumption rises every year by 100%. 55% of people watch online videos everyday. 80% of users can recall a video they have seen 30 days ago. Over 500 million hours of videos are watched on [...]