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By Abhishek Ghosh February 21, 2013 1:24 am Updated on February 21, 2013

Which CDN is Best for Serving Static Contents and Streaming

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Which CDN is Best has one answer – Akamai. Akamai is the global standard and used by IBM to Microsoft. You have to find someone using their infrastructure. Our tutorials and guides on web page speed has been mentioned by various standard websites, that includes a blog post by Google, Other notes on quite popular WordPress plugin WP Total Cache (see Other Notes Tab on official repo). We neither tell you a way that is too costly or has security issues just for being marginally cheaper. We have no affiliate kind of link business. We can see lot of website are actually misleading the new users to answer the basic question – which cdn is best.

 

Which CDN is Best : Practical Facts

 

As CDN basically uses Edge Computing, most Enterprise grade users rents Akamai or some other’s Infrastructure and installs their own softwares and deliver the service. Content Delivery Network is fully different quite bigger sized business as their are lot of videos, streaming media needs to be served by the bigger brands. It is practically impossible for any company to go to another country and spend few million for a datacenter only for CDN. This is the basic reason why Microsoft to IBM all uses other’s hardware.

Like our usual server or web hosting, CDN also has dedicated hardware and network dependent factors which actually determines the total cost. With fully dedicated infrastructure, the pricing per month for CDN can go up to $800 – $1000 per month. Mostly these also includes web acceleration in other ways.

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An average user never needs to know more. Speed will get increased with minimum latency time of 160 ms. 250 ms is the average and acceptable latency time.

Regarding your query – Which CDN is Best; keep in mind these points :

 

  • CDN is a need to decrease the consumption of bandwidth at lesser cost
  • CDN decreases the page loading time up to a level and it depends on the person who is configuring for a CMS like WordPress, Joomla!, Magento etc.
  • CDN can be exploited to hack – because the Java-scripts the served from a CDN
  • A Free CDN or Community CDN has all the risks of a Free Public Cloud.
  • CDN can decrease the traffic from Google Image Search. For very small blog, importance should be given to minifying and combining, over CDN because Google Images is a potential source of traffic. This is a practical thing that happens.

 

Which CDN is Best for Serving Static Contents and Streaming

 

We said about Akamai. Rackspace Cloud uses Akamai’s Infrastructure and Open Stack Swift as software. Cost is 10¢/GB/Mo. From our calculation, a website with 10K to 50K per day pageviews will get $2 / month bill. This calculation is an average considering WordPress. Performance and features are excellent at that price.

NetDNA will be our next choice. But not MaxCDN. Plus MaxCDN actually costing per year more. Amazon should not be used for various reasons (its our opinion, you can use it with your own opinion). Using Google tricks for using it as a CDN is risky. The best, definitely if you can use Akamai directly, but that is a costly affair. Also you can read this article on Akamai, Edge Computing, Cloud Computing and Web Page Acceleration for latest news at present.
 

Which CDN is Best

 
You can use the search box on this website and search with Rackspace Cloud Files to check the other various kind of usages of Cloud Files. Cloud Files is actually for the Rackspace users, the API and others are set in that way, however that will not create any issue for normal usages.
 

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Which CDN is Best for Serving Static Contents and Streaming," in The Customize Windows, February 21, 2013, February 9, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2013/02/which-cdn-is-best-for-serving-static-contents-and-streaming/.

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