SimpleCDN Data Mirroring, Caching & Serving
Summary
SimpleCDN is a content delivery network that provides media distribution and mirroring. Through their hardware configurations, and advanced server environment, they are able to mirror and distribute content globally across 14 nodes, making your community's videos, pictures, and audio available at unbeatable rates globally.
While SimpleCDN is only 1 of a handful of CDN providers, they are by far the superior choice. This reasoning comes from their distributed model which can scale instantly and reliably, as well as their ability to mirror content from your community without having our system send them those files.
Some of SimpleCDN's competitors include Akamai, CacheFly, Limelight, EdgeCast and Amazon CloudFront. During the development of our platform, we tested each of these companies and their networks extensively, and they all failed to compete with SimpleCDN for a combination of the following reasons: uptime, transfer rates, scaling, capacity, global distribution and Amazon integration.
Integration
One of the biggest advantages of SimpleCDN over other's in the market relates to the way the CDN grabs the content, mirrors it, and then serves it. SimpleCDN creates a mirror image of the content your community uploads or creates. The second a user submits a video or picture, that file is being served off of their global network.
Additionally, SimpleCDN's capacity to send HTTP headers to ensure client side caching have set them apart from many competitors. With this feature, your content will be stored in the user's cache for greater user experiences.
Result
The result of our integration with SimpleCDN will be something that may remain somewhat hidden away from you at first. With SimpleCDN, we're able to serve your media equally around the world. If a user in California uploads a video, users in New York, London, Moscow and Tokyo will be able to view that video at incredibly high speeds instantly after having been uploaded.
Somewhat more noticeable will be the capacity for your community to grow. Through SimpleCDN's pairing with Comcast, and usage of SSD storage, your community will be able to upload thousands videos or pictures, and will not notice any lag in the serving of this media.
