CONTENT DELIVERY WHITE PAPER 2014 www.keycdn.com proinity GmbH 1
KeyCDN White Paper 2014 CONTENT 01. INTRODUCTION 03 02. FEATURES 04 03. BENEFITS 06 04. NETWORK 08 05. PRICING 09 06. ABOUT US 11 2 proinity GmbH
INTRODUCTION Why should you use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)? AContent Delivery Network (also known as Content Distribution Network) is a system of geographically distributed severs around the world. These server maintain copies of the content. The primary benefits of a CDN are about speed and high-availability, but a CDN brings a whole range of other advantages. First of all a CDN will boost your website. Slow websites are a no-go these days. A CDN will significantly reduce the loading time. Content will always be served from the closest edge server available. An edge server closer to you will lower latency and the closer a server is the less bottle necks are along the way. So keep in mind that a CDN is not just about a few milliseconds latency improvement but also about much faster loading time. High-availability is another key component of a CDN. Traffic will always be routed to the nearest point of presence (POP). If one POP is not available, all the requests are automatically routed to the next POP. A CDN will definitely improve your site availability. Since the core HTML is still coming from your server, availability can only be as good as it is for your server. A CDN doesn t really help if your (origin) server is frequently down since dynamic content is still coming from your server. What about the other aspects of a CDN? A single server offers you limited scalability. A CDN makes it easier for you to scale seamlessly. Your server only delivers the dynamic content (HTML and such) and all the static content will come from the CDN. A CDN will definitely bring performance improvement whether you run a small site or something on a larger scale. But speed is just one part of the equation, a CDN will bring a whole range of other advantages. sales@keycdn.com www.keycdn.com proinity GmbH 3
KeyCDN White Paper 2014 OUR FEATURES Push & Pull Functionality Create as many zones as you need. Each zone can be configured individually. Changes are globally applied within minutes. You can upload your content to a push zone via FTP, SFTP and rsync. A pull zone will cache your content instantly from you web server after the first request. General Zone Features Create several zones Use your CNAMEs GZip compression Export raw log files Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Force downloads Push Zone Upload content to your FTP account Content is globally available within minutes Enabled directory listing No limit on file size Pull Zone Purge an entire zone or purge a single file Cache query strings Override origin cache-control headers Override origin expires headers Streaming Functionality Accelerate your streams around the globe. KeyCDN offers Video on Demand (VOD) and Live Streaming based on RTMP, RTMPT and RTSP. Supported file format for VOD FLV (Flash Video.flv) MP4 (QuickTime container.mp4,.f4v,.mov,.m4v,.mp4a,.3gp, &.3g2).ismv,.isma MP3 (.mp3) The integaration with Flowplayer is fully documented. Live Streaming tools like Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) and WireCast could be quickly configured to stream a live event through the KeyCDN infrastructure. CDN Integration The KeyCDN knowledge base provide you with the information how to integrate the CDN into your current solution. Custom implementation and integration into Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and Magento are well documented. 4 proinity GmbH
OUR FEATURES Security Features A CDN is not just about speed, but also about security. We make sure that you get the security features you need to maintain high security standards. Configure your SSL certificates with a few clicks or create access tokens for a more sophisticated access management. Management Dashboard Our dashboard gives you the flexibility to configure your zones. It also provides you with an excellent overview of all ongoing activities. The information is displayed in near real-time. Changes in the dashboard take only a few minutes to be active. The dashboard is also optimized for tablets and mobiles. Secure Token Secured links provide content only within a desired period and only to visitors having a valid link. It is not possible to download secured content without a valid URL. The expiration time can be defined from seconds to days. Shared SSL Shared SSL is free and can be used for all zones. Shared SSL can easily be enabled in the dashboard. No change required on your side. Dashboard Features Near real-time reporting Account usage in near real-time Intuitive user interface Responsive UI for your mobile and tablet Reporting in table format Manage Zones and Zonealiases (CNAMEs) View invoices File browser (Push Zone) Multiple FTP-user accounts Rest API Custom SSL Custom SSL can be enabled for your CNAMEs. Wildcard and SAN certificates are supported. Let us create a custom SSL for you or send us your existing certificate. proinity GmbH 5
KeyCDN White Paper 2014 YOUR BENEFITS Scale seamlessly to the Level that is right for you. Instantly Accelerate your Web Content. Performance Your data is stored around the globe. Shorter distance to users will not only reduce latency but also minimize packet loss. All these factors will result in a much better performance. We provide you the best CDN performance. Scalability Scale seamlessly to a level that is right for you. You don't need to pick a package or subscription which is eventually too small or too big. Keep your existing infrastructure and simply offload all traffic to our CDN. Security KeyCDN offers industry-leading encryption standards. We make it easy for you to setup and configure security settings. Security changes are globally deployed within minutes. 6 proinity GmbH
Easy Integration into your Infrastructure. Sign up for a free Trial and get started immediately. Reduce Costs Lower your OPEX from day one. You can cut costs significantly if you use our CDN compared to most traditional web hosters and even other CDNs. Reliability Requests are always routed to the nearest available location. If one server is not available, requests are automatically sent to the next available server. The user will not notice any change. Search Engine Optimization Page speed is a key factor when it comes to page ranking. Most search engines consider the page loading time in their formulas. proinity GmbH 7
KeyCDN White Paper 2014 OUR NETWORK Get immediately Access to our strategic Points of Presence. Existing POP Planned POP Data Centers Americas Chicago, USA Dallas (TX), USA Jacksonville (FL), USA Los Angeles, USA Seattle, USA Washington D.C., USA Data Centers Asia Singapore Hong Kong, China Tokyo, Japan Data Centers Europe Frankfurt, Germany Milano, Italy Moscow, Russia Roubaix, France Strasbourg, France Stockholm, Sweden Valencia, Spain 8 proinity GmbH
ONE GLOBAL PRICE TRAFFIC 0.04 / GB STORAGE 0.9 / GB / month (No storage fees for Pull and Live Zones) Expecting a traffic volume larger than 50TB per month? Contact us and get a quote for an even lower price. proinity GmbH 9
KeyCDN White Paper 2014 TRANSPARENT PRICING Shared SSL for Free No additional fee is charged for shared SSL. Enable Shared SSL in the dashboard and you're ready to go within minutes. Custom SSL for $99/year Provide us with your own SSL certificate or let us create a custom SSL for you. Custom SSL is ready within 2 business days. No minimum commitment Use KeyCDN as it is right for you and only pay for what you use. There is no minimum commitment. Make us of our cheap CDN from the beginning. No Packages You don't need to buy any packages. Unlike other low cost CDNs we don't sell you a package which doesn't fit after all. No minimum Usage We don't charge a minimum usage fee. If you don't use your account you only get charged for storage (if you still store data). No extra Cost for Zones You can create several zones without any extra cost. You need to create at least one zone to get started but feel free to add more. No Charges for HTTP Requests We don't charge extra for HTTP requests or other traffic-related usage. You only pay for CDN traffic and storage. No Fine Print Our pricing model is transparent and there are no hidden costs. No surprises at the end of the month. Payment We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and PayPal. No payment fees. Use your preferred payment method. Free Credits to get started We offer you credits worth 25GB of traffic to get started (free credits expire after one year). You don't need a credit card to start. Just register and go. 10 proinity GmbH
ABOUT US KeyCDN is a service of proinity Ltd. We are a Swiss registered company headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland. We provide a state-of-the-art nization. All these factors give us the flexibility to offer very competitive prices. Content Delivery Network (CDN) that will deliver your Our approach is, to expand into content. You can focus on your core competence and you don't need to deal with and pricing is good. We take the any region where performance another layer of complexity. The internet challenge to expand into regions where is changing rapidly. As you need delivery was typi- low-cost content to adapt to these cally not yet available. Our CDN gets changes (eg. HD videos) you need you going with a few solutions which clicks but also offers are worth the you more configuration options beyond price and easy to implement. an average CDN. We operate a state-ofthe-art infrastruc- Most of o u r ture for you and this C D N gives you the advantage to focus on has been developed in-house but we also take advantage your core business. of various cloud services. KeyCDN is not based on a federated CDN or any other The company is privately funded. reselling CDN. We work together with We re a passionate team operating various infrastructure partners in order to a high-performance content delivery network (CDN). We make content optimize processes and keep a lean orga- de- proinity GmbH 11
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