Category Archives: CDN

04 Aug 2015

CDN Network Architecture

- CDN
Adriana

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!

- CDN
Adriana

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 [...]

22 Jun 2015

Network distribution system

- CDN
Adriana

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 [...]

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 [...]

15 Jun 2015

CDN security questions

- CDN
- Web Security
Adriana

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 [...]

10 Jun 2015

All You Need To Know About CDN CloudFront

- CDN
Adriana

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 [...]

04 Jun 2015

MODX CDN Integration

Adriana

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

22 May 2015

Software CDN solutions

- CDN
Adriana

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 [...]

18 May 2015

CDN performance tracking

Content Delivery Networks became an integral part of all kind of businesses, that work online. That is why the use of service, providing by variety of CDN companies, growths year by year. They use CDNs to optimizetheir websites. But when there are some problems with CDN, it needs an optimization too. And CDN performance tracking is not so simple. Thereareseveralmetrics tomeasuretheContentDeliveryNetworkanditsconditionatthemoment. Here canbenamedthree CDN monitoring metrics: server response time performance; individualpageelements; hostspeed. Response time from CDN servers is one of the most important indexes [...]

15 May 2015

Best CDN review in 2015

The global use of CDN technology in a lot of online processes seems to grow year by year. There are plenty of CDN companies on this market, including small players. There are over twenty noticeablybig companies. Below,there is a list with best CDN review. Companies are selected by their POPs spread, services, customers and alsosome other factors. CDN companies will be located starting from the best. 1. Amazon CloudFront. This CDN company has 52 POPs all over the word - [...]