MediaTemple, which powers The 8BIT Network, has announced the release of a CDN solution that’s going to be available to their customers at the price point of $20 per month.
CDN or Content Delivery Network is a clever way to speed up websites and applications around the world. A CDN is essentially a network of storage and caching servers spread strategically across the globe containing copies of your website’s static content.
The “magic” behind the system delivers your content from the geographic location closest to your users, drastically decreasing loading time for your site across the planet all while lightening the load on your origin hosting server.
We’re already using a CDN solution, MaxCDN, and have integrated this pretty deeply with our cacheing so we won’t be moving anytime soon, but it’s a strong play from a business perspective to have it available to customers.
Here are some key features:
- 19 global points of presence
- Increased SEO performance
- Full control panel
- Small and large file optimized
- Faster loading websites
- 200GB of monthly network transfer is included
- No contract, no setup fees
Are you using a CDN? Would you consider using MT’s if you’re using them for hosting?
Ben says
I had never heard of a CDN until this article. Is a CDN helpful if your only targeting a local/US audience? I understand that it would speed up your site but would it be significant enough to the local visitors?
John Saddington says
yes. it would also help very much.