Content Delivery Networks [ CDN ]
Content Delivery Networks [ CDN ]are high performance
network for files and video distributions which operate as an application service provider. It is a efficient and economical way to increase the scale, reach and performance of a startup or company. The CDN's can be used to serve static files, dynamic files and stream video files too.
Operation of Content Delivery Networks:
The files we want to serve using CDN's are stored in various CDN servers by replicating the files in different geographical areas where the CDN has its data centers. The CDN data servers are around the world. For any request to a served file to a CDN, the request is routed to the nearest edge location of CDN available from the visitor. And thus the files from the nearest server is sent to the visitor. This increases the performance and speed.
Where to use:
CDN's are used to :
- serve download files at a high speed
- stream media files e.g. video on demand
- serving static and dynamic files
Some of the options for CDN are :
- https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
- http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/
- http://scaleengine.com
- http://bigcdn.com
- http://www.dacast.com/
- http://www.maxcdn.com/
- http://www.edgecast.com
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