When traditional Internet operations and maintenance are faced with a surge in business volume, they often use the method of adding new servers and bandwidth to simply and roughly solve the problem, but the cost and response speed of this expansion are not ideal. Using CDN (Content Delivery Network) can easily, efficiently, and quickly solve many problems brought about by the rapid development of enterprises in the Internet.
The following are six scenarios where CDN acceleration is more needed:
APP acceleration
Almost all industries and categories can be displayed on APP, and all conceivable ideas such as e-commerce, games, corporate office, takeaway, and so on are reflected on mobile devices. The performance of mobile applications directly affects the revenue of enterprises. A good mobile application experience will bring better user satisfaction to enterprises.
For enterprises in rapid development, users will spread word of mouth due to the excellent quality of the product itself, and then grow rapidly. However, it may be difficult for the hardware equipment of the server to perfectly match the large number of users. If a good product ultimately blocks users out due to poor network experience, it will be regrettable. With the help of CDN, the service capabilities of applications can be rapidly expanded, so that enterprises will not lag behind in the battlefield of mobile applications.
Online Video
Every promotion of popular sports live broadcasts and popular film and television works will bring great challenges to online video. For example, the quadrennial World Cup requires the participation of multiple mainstream CDN manufacturers around the world. Every wonderful goal and confrontation will bring an instantaneous peak in traffic. The variability and diversity of this change have determined that it is difficult for an enterprise to independently complete it. Using CDN, you can calmly face such high concurrency and complex requirements.
Poor video experience can lead to customer churn, so smooth access to video needs to be guaranteed. More seriously, when users click on advertisements placed by the company on other platforms and are interested in clicking on the company’s website, it is even more regrettable to lose this customer due to poor network quality and poor experience.
Defend against DDoS and application layer attacks
The surge in traffic caused by malicious network attacks (mainly referred to as DDoS) is a headache. And due to the upgrading of network attack methods, many access network attacks will also be mixed with normal traffic. Due to the difference in hardware investment, when faced with DDoS attacks, the defense capabilities of small companies are even more inadequate. Attackers do not reduce the intensity of attacks due to the weak defense capabilities of small companies, nor do attackers abandon attacks because employees leave work. The attack is likely to be launched anytime, anywhere.
For DDoS, there are mostly two solutions: one is to purchase a hardware firewall for advanced defense. Although the firewall has good defense performance, the price of the firewall for advanced defense is still staggering, and it also appears to be a drop in the bucket in the face of massive attacks. On the other hand, CDN with advanced defense is used to protect access. This method is effective and can buy valuable time for customers to discover and take corresponding measures against DDoS. In addition, CDN manufacturers will also promptly contact the enterprise after the attack is initiated/the traffic is abnormal, and work with the enterprise to seek solutions to the problem.
Dynamic application acceleration
When using online interactive services, the difficulty is far greater than traditional Internet services such as browsing web pages, images, or downloading. “Due to the unstable network environment, it is very easy to encounter problems during operation. Once disconnected, users’ confidence in the enterprise will decrease, and if disconnected multiple times, users will uninstall the application.”. Ordering on e-commerce websites, booking hotel tickets on lifestyle websites, OA/ERP for enterprise applications, and commonly used account login and registration are all areas that require dynamic application acceleration.
The combination of dynamic application acceleration and static application acceleration can help enterprises to address the issue of poor user access quality. The perfect combination of static acceleration for images, files, CSS/JS, and PDF, as well as dynamic acceleration for product selection, comparison, and payment, can improve user website performance and maximize reliability and stability. User websites can be utilized to quickly and reliably distribute cacheable content.
Consistent international access experience
For rapidly developing enterprises, entering the international market to expand business is a good choice. However, due to the convenience of the Internet, there is no need to be personally involved. Opening offices and branches in multiple countries around the world can effectively and quickly solve this problem using CDN to address the pain points of global cross regional access.
From a global perspective, using CDN vendors such as Huosan Cloud, which focus on global integration, can save a lot of management and operational costs. For example, there is no need to negotiate and negotiate prices multiple times for different countries and regions; A sound CDN network does not need to worry about the quality of acceleration, etc.
Product version upgrade
The upgrade of applications on the AppStore will cause us to struggle with network bandwidth in the hosting room, and too many simultaneous downloads will directly reduce the download speed of a single user. After using the CDN acceleration service, download traffic can be diverted to the CDN, greatly improving the customer experience.
On the one hand, the download speed of the application can be guaranteed, and on the other hand, the bandwidth of the computer room does not have to bear the task of downloading from the client, and the access speed also returns to normal. The operation and maintenance colleagues no longer need to worry about updating the application version causing network bandwidth to run full, and the monitoring colleagues do not need to work overtime every time they upgrade to keep an eye on the traffic situation.