virtualization vs containerization
14 Jan 2019

Virtualization vs. Containerization – Which one do I use?

Virtualization and containerization have been and remain popular technology infrastructure deployment models. Both allow you to run multiple applications in an isolated environment on a host operating system. With virtualization being the older of the two technologies, it owns a large footprint of the cloud infrastructure market. However, containerization has become a trendy alternative in recent years. Every technology giant including Microsoft, Google, and IBM support and have solutions that leverage it. When it comes to provisioning infrastructure for [...]
CDN performance
17 Dec 2018

CDN Optimization – 5 Ways to Optimize for Performance

CDN optimization is a vital task in ensuring you get the most out of your service. It also ensures your users enjoy the best possible experience driving more traffic to your site. Even though a Content Delivery Network (CDN) exists to improve the performance of your website, ensuring the CDN performs as it should is a shared responsibility. CDN providers are responsible for managing the caching servers, networks, load balancers, and other related infrastructure needed to deliver your content [...]
Drupal CDN
03 Dec 2018

Drupal CDN Integration – Maximizing Website Monetization

Drupal CDN integration will help minimize page loading times, reduce costs, improve SEO rankings and boost customer satisfaction. If you’re operating a website that you wish to make a profit from, it first has to meet the modern quality standards. This doesn’t only concern design and coding but also loading speed, uptime, responsiveness and the seamless navigation from anywhere in the world. (more…)
cdn edge
27 Nov 2018

Edge Computing – How CDNs Can Help Deliver IoT Data

CDN Edge solutions are going to become more relevant as IoT continues its impressive growth. With the arrival of 5G, the amount of data that IoT devices create is expected to increase exponentially and will require edge solutions that can store, process, and analyze the data as close to the source as possible. In the world of distributed computing, there are currently two contrary paradigms at play. On the one hand, we see the movement of I.T. workloads and data [...]
Magento CDN
19 Nov 2018

CDN for Magento – Perfecting the Content Delivery Experience

Using CDN for Magento CMS helps dramatically improve page loading speed, reduce costs, boost SEO rankings and increase overall customer satisfaction. If you’re running an e-commerce website, chances are you’re already using a content management system (CMS). However, as the number of products on your store, as well as the number of customers, starts to grow, you’re inevitably going to run into issues related to page loading speed and server uptime. This is why integrating a CDN with your CMS [...]
HTTP2 CDN
12 Nov 2018

Protecting CDN Content with Token Authentication and URL Signing

Token authentication and URL signing are technologies which help you secure your CDN content. Using these authentication solutions, you can ensure only legitimate users or services are authorized to access and download the content you have placed on your CDN. Typically, web asset administrators use this type of solution to prevent the hotlinking of material, in which a third-party site or service uses your web assets without permission. This unauthorized access can result in your CDN costs increasing or [...]
CDN Benefits
29 Oct 2018

How CDN SEO Helps Improve Search Result Rankings

Any internet-reliant business strives to achieve good SERP rankings. While Google is constantly making tweaks and changes to its algorithm and improves the effectiveness of ads, nothing gets close to being as effective as organic traffic. CDN SEO is what you need in this case. While the main ranking factors – compelling, top-notch quality content, link-building and social media coverage – remain unchanged, page loading speed is becoming increasingly important as time goes by. In 2010, Google started to pay a [...]
CDN storage
22 Oct 2018

CDN Storage – Push Versus Pull

CDN Storage is an essential element of the service a Content Delivery Network (CDN) utilizes to improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website. CDNs are able to provide these benefits by caching your website’s static content on servers across the world ensuring the shortest delivery route to your global users. There are two distinct methods CDNs utilize to perform this caching service, push publishing and pull publishing. Push CDN publishing involves the consistent copying of your static files [...]
CDN SSL
15 Oct 2018

Why Every Website Owner Should Consider CDN SSL Support

If you're using CDN services, you should consider enabling CDN SSL support, especially if you're selling goods or services. In the modern world, the internet has long become a part of our everyday lives. All operations, both personal and business, including buying goods and services and paying monthly bills, are now readily available online. This fact allows anybody to take advantage of the technology’s convenience. However, convenience doesn’t come without risk. (more…)