Acceleration

Web Site Acceleration: All Content Delivery Networks Are Not the Same, Part 2

Posted Mon, 11/02/2009 - 07:24 by CDN Expert Staff

In the first blog post in this series we talked about differing web acceleration architectures and their performance implications. But there’s a lot more to web site acceleration than just the architecture and its delivery. What about all the other aspects included that are needed to make web site acceleration a complete service, such as:

  • How good is their web portal? Do they have good reporting and monitoring?
  • Does the Content Delivery Network provider allow you to enter a support ticket in the portal, through e-mail, as well as by calling Customer Support?
  • Do they have a global network footprint and if so how dense are their end points?

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Web Site Acceleration: All Content Delivery Networks Are Not the Same, Part 1

Posted Fri, 10/30/2009 - 07:12 by CDN Expert Staff

Two of the most common questions I'm asked are: Aren’t all Content Delivery Network providers the same? And isn’t web site acceleration easy so all caching CDNs are the same?

Those two statements couldn’t be further from the truth.

Web site acceleration is a methodology for having content live on the edge of the network, with delivery to end users from that edge. CDNs offering web site acceleration have to be prepared to constantly deliver millions of web objects. This type of demand is extremely taxing and very difficult not only to deliver but also to report on, making it the most difficult service to deliver - quite the opposite of what most customers believe.

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