When choosing a CDN solution, key features include geographic coverage, security options, performance enhancements, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Geographic coverage
Security options
Performance enhancements
Scalability
Cost-effectiveness
Geographic coverage ensures that the content delivery network has a wide-reaching server distribution, improving the speed and reliability of content delivery across different regions. Security options are vital for protecting data, making features like DDoS protection and SSL encryption necessary to safeguard transactions and sensitive information. Performance enhancements, such as caching and load balancing, are important to ensure fast loading times and minimal latency. These factors greatly impact user experience.
Scalability is crucial for handling variable traffic loads, which allows businesses to adapt quickly to changes in demand. A scalable CDN must support both current and future growth without compromising performance. Cost-effectiveness involves evaluating pricing models to ensure they align with the business's financial capabilities while delivering needed services. Understanding the trade-off between cost and features helps in selecting a CDN that delivers value by seamlessly integrating with existing systems and providing essential support.
Director of Product Marketing at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 3, 2015
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
Top 20
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?
CDN, or Content Delivery Network, improves website performance by distributing content across multiple locations. This reduces load times and bandwidth consumption, enhancing user experiences globally.A Content Delivery Network leverages a network of servers strategically located to deliver content based on the user's geographical location. This results in faster loading speeds and reduced latency. Users benefit from increased reliability and less downtime, making content accessible under...
When choosing a CDN solution, key features include geographic coverage, security options, performance enhancements, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Geographic coverage ensures that the content delivery network has a wide-reaching server distribution, improving the speed and reliability of content delivery across different regions. Security options are vital for protecting data, making features like DDoS protection and SSL encryption necessary to safeguard transactions and sensitive information. Performance enhancements, such as caching and load balancing, are important to ensure fast loading times and minimal latency. These factors greatly impact user experience.
Scalability is crucial for handling variable traffic loads, which allows businesses to adapt quickly to changes in demand. A scalable CDN must support both current and future growth without compromising performance. Cost-effectiveness involves evaluating pricing models to ensure they align with the business's financial capabilities while delivering needed services. Understanding the trade-off between cost and features helps in selecting a CDN that delivers value by seamlessly integrating with existing systems and providing essential support.
-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?