If you’re looking for a convenient way optimize your website and accelerate content delivery, look no further than ALTERNcloud’s Edge CDN. CDN services are designed to ensure a smooth and enjoyable user experience by quickly delivering content for websites, e-commerce, gaming, and video streaming. In today’s post, discover how ALTERNcloud’s CDN offerings can support your website. 

How Content Delivery Networks make websites faster

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.

The benefits of using ALTERNcloud’s CDN

Utilizing ALTERNcloud’s CDN comes with a plethora of benefits, as research shows that fast-loading websites lead to a better user experience, higher conversion rates, and increased SEO. Additional advantages include:

• Increased internet speed: ALTERNcloud CDN allows users to access information more efficiently and quickly, especially if they’re geographically far from the host.
• Increased redundancy: By redistributing internet traffic to multiple servers across hundreds of locations instead of one server in one location, using ALTERNcloud’s CDN enables the overall network to better handle more traffic and larger files.
• Higher content quality: Using ALTERNcloud CDN increases the quality of content as well as the speed at which that content is delivered. Because of that shortened delivery distance, streaming videos and conference calls will lag less and have a clearer picture.
• Stronger security: ALTERNcloud CDN capitalizes on its myriad servers to increase protection against DDoS attacks and generate firewalls.
• Reduced latency: Use of ALTERNcloud CDN can reduce the network latency that typically accompanies long-distance internet use.
• Bandwidth management: Transferring data from a host server costs more than transferring it from an edge server does, so using ALTERNcloud CDN can reduce bandwidth consumption and costs.