CDN
Setting up Leaseweb CDN on WordPress
Setting up WordPress on LeaseWeb CDN is very easy, as you’ll see. A couple of assumptions before we start:
- WordPress is installed on the origin server
- WP Super Cache or similar is installed within WordPress
- An “Origin” that points to your WordPress installation is already defined within your LeaseWeb CDN control panel.
Configuring the zone itself
First thing you want to do is to configure a Pull Zone. Do this by going to “Manage Zones” -> “Pull Zones” and click the “Add” button.
3 ways to maximize advertising and website ROI through IaaS
Customers want content delivered instantly. Whether it’s articles & videos or any type of advertising inventory pushed from a Supply-Side Platform (SSP) to a Demand-Side Platform (DSP), Owned Media, or big data being transmitted into a Data Management Platform (DMP) and used for analysis and real-time optimizations, it has to appear on the screen in milliseconds. Slow websites decrease conversion rates and that costs money.
A strong infrastructure provider can resolve these challenges:
- Ad viewability (Billable Impressions/Page Load Time/SEO)
- Page speed (Ad Deliverability/UX/SEO)
- Data access (Efficiency/Relevancy)
It is achieved as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
The right solution at the right time: LeaseWeb in 2015
Because the market continues to change, LeaseWeb keeps developing new and innovative solutions to provide our customers with the best hosting solutions. Like previous years, we developed a lot of new features for existing products, expanded our global footprint and even launched new services. Here’s a selection of the things we introduced in the past year:
Cloud
To give our customers a head start on the competition, we increased the data traffic amounts of all our virtual server packages by up to twenty (!) times. We also announced a partnership with NetApp in September. Our cloud portfolio is now standardized on All Flash FAS storage, which makes hosted applications much faster and more reliable.
In addition, we are currently developing several private cloud solutions based on different kinds of middleware. This enables you to use the technology you feel most comfortable with, using the high-class infrastructure of LeaseWeb. These new cloud services will provide fantastic value for money.
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Improving our CDN: Four new POP locations – and more on the way
Good coverage of our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is key to our customers. The more Points of Presence (PoPs) our CDN has, the better you will be able to serve your end users. As part of our continuous CDN upgrade program, I’m proud to announce that we have opened a further four new PoP locations during the last couple of months.
We have prioritized the following strategic locations:
LeaseWeb introduces third generation CDN: multi carrier rack
As a CDN operator, we are continually pioneering new technologies in order to improve performance and lower our cost base.
In this context, we have launched several generations of CDN PoPs. The first generation connected the CDN servers to several carriers via LeaseWeb’s routers. The router ports found the best and fastest route available. In September 2014, we introduced a second generation of PoPs, which complemented the first. The second generation connected the CDN directly to one carrier. This saves costs because the LeaseWeb routers are no longer in between. Unfortunately, in this scenario there is no redundancy advantage since we connected to one carrier only. So even though the CDN PoPs complemented our platform and performed well, they did not allow us to grow at the pace we needed to.
Finally, we can now proudly present our third generation multi-carrier PoP combining the best of both worlds. Using smart, pioneering SDN technologies that we developed in-house, we are exploiting switches that are actually performing routing tasks without the need of using expensive routers.
The multi-carrier PoP routes traffic to either the LeaseWeb network infrastructure (from which we use the peering destinations) or directly to a variety of other carriers available according to their performance. This way, the multi-carrier rack boosts content speed delivery to end users, while at the same time reducing infrastructure and network costs to the bone.
Furthermore, the cherry on top of the cake is that the new multi-carrier PoPs will host our dynamic Anycast DNS platform. The combination of both actions shows improvement by a factor 3 of our content delivery performance both in throughput and latency.
The multi-carrier rack will first be deployed in Miami this August. The rest of the CDN platform will be fully migrated in the following months. By the end of the year, all of LeaseWeb’s customers worldwide will be able to reap the benefits and get more speed and offload than ever before!
Setting up the LeaseWeb CDN on Magento
Magento
® is one of today’s most popular e-commerce platforms and widely used for automating online stores. Integrating this open-source content management system with the LeaseWeb CDN can really optimize performance of your e-commerce web site and in this blog we describe what you need to do to set it up quickly and easily.
A couple of assumptions before we get started:
- Magento® is installed on the origin server.
- An “Origin” that points to your Magento® installation is already defined within your LeaseWeb CDN control panel.
LeaseWeb CDN First Anniversary: We’ve only just begun!
What a year! Successfully launching a brand new CDN service from scratch in such a competitive environment has been a tremendous achievement. And now the LeaseWeb CDN team is looking forward to presenting you with yet more new features next year as we continuously improve it. We’re really excited to see how much we’ve accomplished in such a short period of time and it’s been a thrilling experience to be part the team that made it happen.
Here are just a few of the things we’ve achieved:
Sneaky P2P tactics with video delivery
Hello LeaseWeb Blog readers, Lawton Cheney here, writing to you this month about the debatable practice of peer-delivery (P2P) distribution applications in the online video streaming market.
Yes, I said peer-to-peer. And no, we are not going to “party like it’s 1999” with Napster. What we have for a quick discussion here, is an Internet distribution dynamic that we have seen on the Internet before, but with a twist as seen today in the VOD (video on demand) and OTT (over-the-top streaming) marketplaces. If Internet technology and/or a little bit of ethical business practice are things you like to read about – please carry on.
One trend that we are noticing (one that I find questionable practice) in the streaming market is that some platforms are implementing a “peer-to-peer” solution whereby the end-user (i.e. the end-user’s computer, tablet, etc., and upload link to the Internet) is being utilized by some video players to serve and deliver to other end-user customers located within close geographical proximity of the initial end-user.
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