With increase in the usage of internet the demand for services/tools to increase the speed of application is increasing. CDN stands for Content delivery network. It helps user to reduce the latency and increase the overall browsing speed of the application. CDN is mainly designed in such a way to reduce the overall latency of your application. The application having user globally require CDN services to reduce the response time to open the website.
How Content Delivery Network (CDN) Works?
CDN stores the content of your website in various location and it is designed in such a way that whenever a user pings the website the data is retrieved from the nearest location. In nutshell CDN puts data in different location and provide more coverage to your users. For example if someone access your website in US and website is hosted in Australia then with the help of CDN the website will be accessed from a local POP in US.
Advantages of Content Delivery Network (CDN)
* Improves the speed of your application
* Increase the security of the application
* It helps to handle high traffic
* Optimize the bandwidth consumption
* Protect website from DDOS attacks
* Increases the uptime of your application
* Increases the traffic conversion rate of your website
What kind of users require CDN Services?
* Website having users spread across the world
* Website having features like online videos and streaming services
* Applications having gateways integrated with it
* Social media websites with global client base
* Online banking applications
* Digital media applications
* Gaming applications
* E commerce websites
Factors involved in the performance of CDN depends on: -
Number of PoPs: - CDN PoPs stand for Point of presence. More the PoPs are present lesser the round trip distance is required. At Hostrunway we are having PoPs in all the major data centre globally and we ensure to provide you the lowest latency for the application hosted on our CDN platform.
Caching Servers: - Caching servers helps to store and delivers the file locally. It helps to reduce the website load time and optimize the bandwidth consumption.
Storage: - Normally the caching server’s performance depends on the storage device. Cache server’s uses SSD drives to provide the low response time.