Content Delivery
What is Content Delivery?
Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a type of content delivery cloud service in which copies of web content are located at different locations closer to the end user to facilitate easy delivery of the content. In simple words, it's like having multiple copies of a single book in different libraries across the world, so that you can pick it up whenever and wherever you require, making it convenient. Content Delivery cloud services networks are located on a network edge closer to the end user. It reduces the distance between both content and the user, so CDN helps provide faster performance along with reducing the loading time.
Reducing latency and delay in communication is the main aim of the content delivery cloud services. The communication traffic between servers and users has to move over a large distance because of the global and complex nature of the internet. A large portion of the world's internet traffic is carried by CDNs and the hardest challenges of transferring the content over the internet is solved by these services. Every business, be it small and medium content providers or world’s largest corporations, take advantage of content delivery services. The benefits provided by CDNs are:
Better Performance
Enhanced Security
Gathering Intelligence
Ensuring Availability
Reduced Bandwidth Cost
What are the types of Content Delivery?
There are multifarious types of Content delivery cloud services according to their functions and services offered by them.
Traditional CDN
Static content like images, stylesheets and other data is delivered in order to optimise the load time and to reduce latency.
Dynamic CDN
Unlike traditional CDN, dynamic CDN server is able to deal with dynamic content generation making it suitable for applications and websites where content is changed frequently.
Video CDN
As the name suggests, video content delivery networks have specialisation in the delivery of video content. Smooth playback, decreased buffering and overall improved video performance is ensured by it.
Web Application Acceleration CDN
The main functionality of these CDN servers is to improve and fasten the delivery of all the web applications whether they include static or dynamic content.
Mobile CDN
The content delivered on the mobile devices is being optimised keeping in consideration the factors like type of device, its screen size and condition of the network.
How does Content Delivery work?
Below given is the explanation of how CDN works:
Content Creation
When digital assets like web pages, images, videos and other documents start developing then it is called the beginning of content creation. After the completion of the process, comes the process of hosting these assets and one has the option of hosting it within organisations’ infra or on a third-party’s CDN.
Content Replication
Multiple copies of images, stylesheets and scripts which are static are stored by a CDN network provider across different geographical locations. The process of storing multiple copies is called content replication.
Geographical Distribution:
There are some points of presence (PoPs) across the globe and in these CDN servers are being distributed strategically over these points.
DNS Resolution
Domain Name System converts the domain name into an IP address, when a request is made by the user to access content or a particular website.
Content Delivery
The CDN server which is closest to the end user in Content delivery network service delivers the content requested by the user. This ensures faster delivery of the content along with reduced latency. In this process of delivering the content, multifarious layers of caching, compression and encryption are involved in order to improve the performance and reduce usage of bandwidth.
Load Balancing
Load balancing is used by CDNs to distribute the requests of the users across the multiple servers to ensure effective usage of resources and to prevent overloading on any single server.
Request Routing
When the website or application content is requested by the user, it is routed to that server within CDN which is closest in order to ensure that content has been sent from the nearest server to the user.
Content Distribution
These CDNs are used by organisations to provide their digital content to the end user across the world in order to check performance as well as availability.
Content Optimisation
Before beginning the process of content distribution, digital assets are being optimised by CDM in order to check performance and security. In this process, images and videos are compressed, and files of JavaScript and CSS are minified so that load times can be improved.
Key Points
Our Geographically distributed servers cache content near to the end user helping in swift transfer of assets be it be HTML page, JS files, images, videos and stylesheets.
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Get your content delivered swiftly, cost-efficiently, as well as securely with our Cloud Content Delivery Services.
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With Abacus CDN Providers, interruptions are prevented and security is improved.
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What are the types of Content Delivery?
Improved website load time
Abacus Cloud CDN offers swift website loading time, reduces bounce rates along with increasing the time spent by the public on the website.
Reliability and redundancy
Our CDN delivery network provides influential reliability and redundancy, as servers located at multiple locations makes sure that other platforms can take over in case one server stops working, thereby, reducing downtime.
Global Reach
Globally distributed servers of Abacus Content Delivery provide a faster experience for all the users across the globe.
Cost-efficiency
Although Cloud services have a particular cost, the pay-as-you-go method gives an option of paying for resources you use, which results in overall cost reduction as compared to traditional methods.
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