Content Delivery Network (CDNSearch.com)

It’s important to first understand how a content delivery network differs. Let’s say that you select a web hosting provider that has their data center in Dallas, Texas, and you host a number of videos on your server in Dallas. If someone from California tries accessing your file, he literally will travel through various providers to access your server in Dallas, and then all way back to California. If instead you had your content in California near this visitor, he would travel over less providers, thereby receiving faster speeds, and also avoid possible network latency. Since the US accounts for around 60% of Internet traffic, it’s likely that you have a large number of visitors outside of the US as well, so traveling from Tokyo back to Dallas is quite a haul, and can be very slow.

The way a content delivery network works in this respect, is that it pulls your files from Dallas, and spreads it throughout the world on a number of ‘nodes’. These nodes will stream your content to visitors by using advanced routing technology. The end-result is a if you select a CDN provider that has nodes in London, and you have a visitor from London, they’ll pull the file form your content delivery network from London, delivering your files with fewer ‘hops’.

Resulting benefits include the ability to deliver HD quality content with high quality of service, relatively low delivery costs, extremely low network load.

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