The amount of web traffic that plays a role in dynamic Internet content is large, and it has become much larger as users demand higher levels of personalization. It has become more important for content providers to provide information that is tailored to the specific needs of the customer. The biggest challenge with achieving this [...]
Many popular websites and blogs have some serious problems with uptime and reliable hosting. Some hosting services are just, plainly put, bad yet others simply suffer from issues with bandwidth and reliability. Using a Content Delivery Network can definitely help with uptime, as well as decrease the load on your shared hosting account or dedicated [...]
We have partnered together with Streaming1 to delivery our on-demand video and streaming files to end-users in Europe much faster and for lower fees than any of our competition. Streaming1 has the ability to stream on-demand the following formats: * Windows Media Network * ShoutCast * QuickTime * IceCast * Real Media * aacPlus The [...]
Squid is very good for putting it in the front of your current web servers, thus accelerating the content that doesn’t change that often. Depending on your web site configuration and hits, I suggest you go for 2GB or even 4GB of RAM for the squid(s) front-end accelerator servers. The best benefit is to have [...]
In last years many new Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies have been launched and pricing for content distribution is very competitive nowadays. There are still old CDN companies like Akamai that charge top dollar but offer very good and quality service. If you can afford to pay top-price, go for it. However, the small content [...]
It would be great if web hosting can be done with just one or two servers backing up each other with all the bandwidth one needs and having all the loads and traffic going through them. But that is really not ideal not anywhere close to what is real. With the growth of the World [...]
If you are experiencing problems with flash video hosting and getting errors because of the incorrect header value it may be that the mime type has not been correctly set-up. Flash video files have extension .flv and mime type: video/x-flv Edit your web server config and add this mime type setting.
High bandwidth means high expenses for the bandwidth and many companies are looking to Content Delivery Network service companies to cut down the bandwidth bills. There are many Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies, for example, Akamai, LocalMirror, Streaming1, Mirror Image, UltraCDN, Value CDN and others, that push the content closer to the end user and [...]
Recent Comments