Load balancers and content delivery networks (CDNs) are critical tools for delivering modern, cloud-native applications. They play essential roles in ensuring the smooth flow of data between applications and end-users. If you don’t have both a load balancer and a CDN in place, you’re probably in a poor position to guarantee the uptime of your application across a wide geographic area. That does not mean, however, that load balancers and CDNs do the same thing.

Since the beginning of the Internet, the speed of delivering content has been an issue. While processor enhancements, network acceleration, and web frameworks have brought drastic improvements to performance, the goalposts have continued to shift further away; devices operate on wireless connections with limited bandwidth, and the Internet is accessed from every corner of the globe.

This blog continues our best CDN series. Today we will be analyzing CDN performance and uptime in Japan over the last seven and 30 days. Tip: Are you new to CDNs? Visit our What is a CDN resource to learn more.

This blog continues our best CDN series. Today we will be analyzing content delivery network performance and uptime in the United Kingdom over the last seven and 30 days. Tip: Are you new to CDNs? Visit our What is a CDN resource to learn more.

This blog continues our best CDN series. Today we will be analyzing CDN performance and uptime in India over the last seven and 30 days. Tip: Are you new to CDNs? Visit our What is a CDN resource to learn more.

As the demand for media-rich content grows, so do the performance expectations of consumers. One of the greatest challenges online businesses face is to deliver large amounts of content to audiences spread out across the globe as quickly as possible. The solution is a content delivery network (CDN).

As the demand for media-rich content grows, so do the performance expectations of consumers. One of the greatest challenges online businesses face is to deliver large amounts of content to audiences spread out across the globe as quickly as possible. The solution is a content delivery network (CDN).

In this blog, we’ll be continuing our series on best-performing CDNs by country. Today’s focus is on Russia. This analysis compares CDN performance and RUM uptime metrics grouped by data sources within the last seven and 30 days of this writing. First things first.

Web page loading time, or website speed in a more technical phrase, is an important SEO component. It's also the most important aspect of the user experience. Modern internet content consumers have a short attention span and lack patience. You risk losing valuable traffic if your website does not load quickly enough. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) can help a website load faster.