A Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of networked computers across the Internet that cooperate to make available the content or data (usually large and static) to users. The network consists of: origin servers, where the content is pushed into the CDN to be replicated; geographically distributed nodes where content is replicated (CDN); and from routing mechanism allowing a user query on a content to be served by the node "closest" in order to optimize data transmission.
The optimization results in [...]
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Let’s Encrypt is a free, and open certificate authority, run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is provided by the Internet Security Research Group and sponsored by Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, OVH, Google Chrome, Facebook and many others.
CDNsun has integrated with Let's Encrypt which allows us to provide free custom SSL CDN certificates to all our clients. So you don't need to spend your money on buying an SSL certificate for your CDN domain from a third-party certificate authority because [...]
A new CDN PoP is available in our network - Bucharest, Romania!
Bucharest is the capital and largest city, as well as the cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dambovița River, less than 60 km (37.3 mi) north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border.
According to the 2011 census, 1,883,425 inhabitants live within the city limits. Economically, Bucharest is the most prosperous city in [...]
Few weeks ago we were happy to announce a 5th way how to access our CDN storages - HTTPS REST API. Now we are happy again because we have integrated the API into our CDN dashboard and created a 6th way how to access our CDN storages - web based file manager. It is an easy-to-use file manager aimed on improving user experience of our CDN dashboard. To upload a file to your CDN storage you no more need [...]
In the following we will publish a live event stream on Facebook.
A video device (camera) and an audio device (microphone) connected with the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder (referred here as FMLE) or alternatively with the Wirecast, the Open broadcaster or the FFmpeg.
The CDNsun account (the most important ;))
Go to Services → New Service → Live.
Pick a CDN Service Domain. Please note that it can be any valid domain name. We have picked facebook-test.cdnsun.com.
Select Internal from the Publishing Point [...]
In these later days more and more online businesses decide to use cdn tools. One of the main factors that influence on this process is the way how searching engines form their rankings. For example, among other things Google uses indicators for performance and page load time to determine the place of specific website in rankings. Other searching engines use similar mechanisms to form their rankings. Content delivery (distribution) networks allow every customer to improve such indicators as website’s [...]
We are happy to announce a 5th way to access our CDN storages - HTTPS REST API! With this API you can upload files, create directories, list directories and remove files or directories easily over an HTTPs protocol directly from your (mobile) application.
Let's do a short summary of all five supported methods.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol it is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP based network, [...]
Content delivery network (or content distribution network) – is a complex system, which allows diversifying storage and delivery of content. Due to such systems online business all over the globe improve the quality of their websites and services. To reveal the essence of delivery network it is necessary to show how does a cdn work. Every content delivery system consists of a large number of servers located in multiple data-centers in different countries. Such servers form complex connections. The [...]
Modern world could not function properly without a large number of data centers. The reason can be found in the CDN technology. Content delivery or content distribution network nowadays helps to almost every user across the Global Net, everyday. Such system makes the content technologically closer to users to improve the quality of how their requests satisfying. End-user can feel it in a better performance, a faster page load time and a better response time. To make this happened, [...]
Content delivery networks or content distribution networks are hardly new systems. They have been a growing part of the Internet since the nineties. Nowadays they become an integral part of the Internet’s content food chain. Nearly 100 percent users all over the globe deal with different CDNs day by day (especially with the video distribution network). Such systems consist of multiple servers distributed in different countries. Content delivery is based on a principle of technological closeness to the end [...]