When evaluating CDN solutions, important features include:
Performance and speed
Reliability and uptime
Global coverage
Security features
Customization options
Cost-effectiveness
Customer support
Scalability
Performance and speed are crucial, ensuring fast content delivery. Reliability and uptime guarantee the content is always accessible. Global coverage ensures users worldwide get optimal performance. Security features like DDoS protection are essential to safeguard data. Customization options allow tailoring the service to specific needs, enhancing flexibility. Cost-effectiveness balances quality and budget, providing value without overspending.
Customer support ensures timely help when issues arise, offering peace of mind. Scalability allows the CDN to grow with the traffic demand, ensuring consistent performance. Evaluating these features helps in selecting a CDN solution that aligns best with required performance, security, and budgetary specifications.
Of course with CDNs people always think about speed.
I see CDNs in a differently. A CDN provides users, and vendors a unique deployment spot based on its location within a network diagram, between the user and the origin web server. Due to this unique location you SHOULD expect more from a CDN than just performance. Why? Because this is the perfect place to layer on ancillary services.
Find a CDN vendor who has service you need, in addition to just plain old performance enhancement. CDN vendors offer all sorts of add on services including:
DNS Management
Malware Detection
Bot Detection
API Security
Web Application Firewalls
2 Factor Authentication
Load Balancing
Threat Intelligence and Fraud Detection
DDoS Protection
Etc.
If you're implementing a CDN as a net new project, stop and ask yourself "Do I have other projects that I can knock out at the same time?"
VP of Business Development at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Real User
2017-05-30T17:58:08Z
May 30, 2017
Downtime overall, ease of deployment, least resistance for buy-in. Is it forward looking and encompassing for future upgrades or requirements with little or no disruption?
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are essential for optimizing website performance by distributing content using strategically located servers worldwide, reducing latency and improving load times.
CDNs play a crucial role in delivering web content rapidly by caching copies on multiple servers. They work by rerouting user requests to the closest server, ensuring the fastest content access. This reduces the load on the origin server and increases redundancy. Enterprises use CDNs for high...
When evaluating CDN solutions, important features include:
Performance and speed are crucial, ensuring fast content delivery. Reliability and uptime guarantee the content is always accessible. Global coverage ensures users worldwide get optimal performance. Security features like DDoS protection are essential to safeguard data. Customization options allow tailoring the service to specific needs, enhancing flexibility. Cost-effectiveness balances quality and budget, providing value without overspending.
Customer support ensures timely help when issues arise, offering peace of mind. Scalability allows the CDN to grow with the traffic demand, ensuring consistent performance. Evaluating these features helps in selecting a CDN solution that aligns best with required performance, security, and budgetary specifications.
-Deployment speed (initial and changes)
-Delivery speed
-Flexibility (can I configure exactly what I need) / testing platform
- Cache Control
- Cache Purge
- Duration of change propagation
Of course with CDNs people always think about speed.
I see CDNs in a differently. A CDN provides users, and vendors a unique deployment spot based on its location within a network diagram, between the user and the origin web server. Due to this unique location you SHOULD expect more from a CDN than just performance. Why? Because this is the perfect place to layer on ancillary services.
Find a CDN vendor who has service you need, in addition to just plain old performance enhancement. CDN vendors offer all sorts of add on services including:
DNS Management
Malware Detection
Bot Detection
API Security
Web Application Firewalls
2 Factor Authentication
Load Balancing
Threat Intelligence and Fraud Detection
DDoS Protection
Etc.
If you're implementing a CDN as a net new project, stop and ask yourself "Do I have other projects that I can knock out at the same time?"
Downtime overall, ease of deployment, least resistance for buy-in. Is it forward looking and encompassing for future upgrades or requirements with little or no disruption?