For online gaming entities and industries with similar business requirements, it’s critical to ensure your platform runs smoothly – that there’s no lag to your content delivery, and the games you offer are available 24/7, with zero concerns about downtime. There’s no better way to accelerate content delivery and keep gamers engaged than by using ALTERNcloud’s Edge CDN. CDN services are designed to ensure a smooth and enjoyable user experience by quickly delivering content for gaming, websites, e-commerce, and video streaming. In today’s post, discover how ALTERNcloud’s CDN offerings can support your gaming platforms.
How Content Delivery Networks improve the gamer experience
A CDN (content delivery network) is comprised of multiple servers that store copies of content from a website or mobile app in various locations across the world, not just on a single host server. This shortens the amount of time it takes for data to travel from the source to the end user, which in turn improves the user experience.
Here’s how it works: when user X sends an initial request to a website, the website’s host server receives it and responds to the request directly. However, if that website is utilizing a CDN, the host will also send a copy of its response to the edge server nearest to the user at that time, which then stores that information as a cached file. Consequently, the next time user X makes a request of that website, instead of getting a response from the host server on the opposite side of the country, the response will come directly from the edge server, resulting in a faster load time.
Using ALTERNcloud’s Edge CDN for gaming
By utilizing ALTERNcloud’s CDN for your gaming website, you’ll be able to deliver long-awaited game DLC and hotfixes to your audience with super short wait times. Whether you offer Browser, Mobile, or PC and Console Games, ALTERNcloud’s CDN allows you to rapidly deliver game assets including hi-res images, audio and video files, and ads to the client’s browser; drastically decrease the total download time of in-game content and planned app updates; and keep your infrastructure fully available on release days – even with hi-res assets and multi-gigabyte updates. Plus, with our CDN, you can globally scale your gaming enterprise with ease, expanding your game to new markets without investing in on-premise infrastructure or growing your operational team.
Additional benefits of ALTERNcloud CDN include:
- Cache Prefetching: Pre-upload content to caching servers to mitigate request avalanches to the origin when long-awaited game updates are released.
- Origin Shielding: Use an additional cache layer in front of the origin to prevent the server from overloading during user peak activity or massive DDoS attacks.
- Large File Delivery Optimization: Optimize content delivery by splitting large files into smaller pieces (<10 MB) and sequentially transferring them to the caching servers.
- Cache Sharding: Reduce response time and the number of requests to the origin by using a shared cache across all server nodes within one data center.
Why ALTERNcloud
Whether you’re looking for a way to ensure your gaming website is set up to handle high-traffic events like a game premier, or it’s utilized for any type of e-commerce, online learning, video streaming, news, or tele-healthcare services, you will find ALTERNcloud’s Edge CDN invaluable for distributing fast and quality content to your users.
At ALTERNcloud, our globally distributed network consists of more than 150 CDN PoPs and 25 secure Cloud locations. All of our products and services seamlessly integrate state-of-the-art DDoS and web protection and natively integrate with each other, so your games and apps always run smoothly at the edge. Plus, our infrastructure lets us tailor our systems to perfectly fit our customers’ individual needs.
ALTERNcloud Edge CDN pricing starts at $35/month and includes 5 managed CDN resources and 1.5TB traffic per month. After that, only pay for what you use: $2 per additional CDN resource, and from $0.0273 per GB of Egress traffic billed monthly.