In the delivery of web applications, websites, and APIs, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) play a crucial role. Website/app visitors and customers receive cached content from the closest location to them. Customer browsers load content faster this way. For eCommerce companies, it results in a faster site delivery time and a better customer experience.
Caching strategies are often used to describe how CDNs are configured to work effectively with the underlying website technology. This is known as the "tech stack."
Most CDNs, however, do not permit configuration changes to the tech stack code base. These critical performance infrastructures are not under the control of engineers on the site. It is therefore extremely difficult and time-consuming for engineers to test and debug updates when multiple teams and stakeholders are involved in isolated user interfaces.
You cannot version-control configuration updates in ordinary CDNs. There is a risk to your tech stack due to the lack of centralized control. As a result, a lot of time and resources are wasted across multiple teams because of confusion. In the tech stack, issues can appear like needles in haystacks (haystacks you might not have direct access to). Tracking issues requires customer complaints and/or input from a separate team without integrating into the codebase. This causes site downtime, lost revenue, and unhappy customers due to a lack of transparency, accountability, and efficiency.
Moreover, CDNs typically cache only static data. Traditional CDNs cannot manage caching for developers because they don't understand the dynamic data in their code. Caching a large portion of a website's most important content is extremely difficult or impossible, negatively affecting performance.
AgileCDN Overview
AgileCDN makes it easy to build, release, protect and accelerate web apps and APIs. Using it, you can deploy, secure, and monitor a site.
Testing of the AgileCDN can be done locally or in a non-production environment before going live. Developers can easily migrate to production after thoroughly vetting changes in identical but different environments via Q/A.
There are many workflow benefits to this - it eliminates maintenance windows, eliminates needless rollbacks, makes tracking and finding issues easier, and prevents mistakes caused by lack of visibility into CDN configuration updates, improving overall team velocity and improving your site's performance.
Customer case
Customer: PSC Class
Contact: Pramod Das
Website: www.pscclass.com
Industry: E-learning
Location: Kerala, India
Key Points:
1. Website is for students who want to write PSC exams (public entrance exams in India)
2. Improve any latency issues being faced
3. Improve the availability and accessibility of content and caching of content for users
4. Option to integrate security features like WAF & DDOS
5. Dedicated delivery of content
“Faced with the huge demand for online properties, my website required a solution that would help me deliver my content in the most secure and highly accelerated manner. AgileCDN has helped step and resolve most of my challenges. The solution is fast paced, secure and highly scalable. The reliability and performance of AgileCDN has given me just what we were looking for.”
- Pramod Das, Owner and CEO @ PSC Class
Background:
PSC Class is a website for students who want to write any government entrance exams. They provide links to mick exams and also the real time exams. The company was founded with the intention to help students prepare and clear government exams for jobs.
The website has links to various mock exams and entrance exams for various Government job postings like railways, banks, police, administration, etc. The company wants to seamlessly distribute and deliver its content to end users with the best performance.
Challenges:
1. Choice of application scenarios being faced and how to deploy them
2. Complexity in using a CDN
3. Recurring costs and contract commitment
The Objective:
To ensure the website’s content is readily available and improve the performance of the website. To ensure end users are receiving the requested content in the fastest time and most secure way possible. To reduce any latency caused by traffic spikes. To help identify the application scenarios of the distribution and specifically create distributions. To ease the use and application of CDN with no recurring costs and no contract commitment.
Why AgileCDN?
AgileCDN is built on ecosystems such as Edgio, Alicloud and AWS. With a very competitive pricing strategy of no commitment pricing, customers are able to pay only for what they use. AgileCDN has helped PSC Class solve its 3 main challenges.
Firstly, AgileCDN comes with various application scenarios to deploy. There are 4 main choices, namely, Dynamic acceleration, Static acceleration, Video-on-demand, acceleration and Accelerated content distribution. PSC was able to identify and create a distribution based on their particular requirements.
The next issue faced was with regards to complexity involved in deploying a CDN. AgileCDN is built and known for its easy to use dashboard. Pramod could get his junior and lesser experienced colleagues to create a distribution in 3 simple steps. “The ease of using AgileCDN is a game changer.” added Pramod.
Also, PSC was paying high amounts of money with the contracts they signed with CDN providers. He was basically paying for the times he had no traffic as well. Now with the help of AgileCDN’s no contract commitment pricing strategy, PSC was able to top-up their accounts and pay only for the times of usage. AgileCDN has a no commitment pricing, pay as you go model. You basically top-up your balance when there is traffic/usage. You can increase or decrease your top-ups based on your seasonal traffic and spikes.
In addition, AgileCDN has key security features which you can integrate into your distribution. Added with DDOS protection at very affordable costs, AgileCDN has partnered with Radware the leader in DDOS protection to deliver the content with high security.
AgileCDN was the perfect fit for PSC Class as it addressed the business challenges of PSC Class. AgileCDN can be your game changer too.
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