Why would you want to use a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
040 Hostings CDN network exists out of more as 20 locations worldwide which can provide your visitors with the best user experience in downloading files, watching movies or visiting your homepage.
Why you should choose a CDN over your own servers:
- Location, data is transfered from the server to your visitors from the nearest location to them, making latency issues non existing thus loading speeds a lot faster. 040 Hostings CDN is located on more as 20 locations world wide. See the details below.
- Bandwidth Delivery, you now do not need to worry about your bandwidth delivery when having many users requesting information from your site. So an average of 7gbps 24×7 with peaks of lets say 27gbps are no exception and real world examples an amount you would never been able to handle on a single server or even several servers.
- Low Cost, with 040 Hosting you are only paying for the the datatransfer not the storage of the data on the CDN, imagine what would be the cost if you would need to place 20 servers all over the world in differerent datacenters with a network conectivity as good as our CDN?
- Almost 100% delivery of your data without downtimes, chances that the whole CDN would be down at the exact same moment are very small and likely only exist when planned maintenance would be scheduled, but even in those cases the CDN does not need to be offline completely. When one node is unavailable the users will be redirected to the next best location.
- 040 Hosting can setup the CDN for you on any account you have with us, even small shared hosting accounts can have the CDN as an addon, which means you can already use a full blown CDN service from 9 euro’s a month!
What kind of content can you use a CDN for:
A Content Delivery Network can handle any kind of static data, all other requests will simply be forwarded to your hosting account. This includes but is not limited to; image files; style sheets; javascripts; html pages; files; movies and flash (where the last one can be streaming if wanted).
Examples of websites you could use our Contentlivery for:
- Youtube type of websites are very likely to use content delivery networks as the data needs to be streamed and accessable by users worldwide; without a CDN this would be an impossible task.
- Software update sites; sites like microsoftupdate which provides thousands of people with updates are using content delivery networks to provide you with the latest patches for their operating systems.
- Global websites which find it important that their site loads fast anywhere in the world; all images, style sheets and javascript components are uploaded to the CDN for fast delivery to the visitor from any of the more as 20 nodes wordwide.
Technical details of 040 Hostings CDN offer:
Formats for streaming media:
- Windows Media
- Flash Media
Formats for progressive downloads:
- Windows Media
- Flash Media
- DivX
- H.264
- Move Media
- Microsoft Silverlight
- QuickTime
- MP3
- RealSystem G2
- RealPlayer
- Real Networks
- HTML
- TXT
- GIF
- JPG
- PDF
Delivery protocols:
- HTTP
- RTMP
- MMS
Content Delivery Network Nodes:
Currently the following nodes are in service:
- Amsterdam
- Atlanta
- Boston
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Denver
- El Segundo
- Hong Kong
- Houston
- London
- Miami
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Phoenix
- Seattle
- Singapore
- Sunnyvale
- Sydney
- Tokyo
- Toronto
- Virginia
More information and pricing:
Please visit our CDN information page or contact our sales department for a personal quote.
