From the perspective of websites and applications, faster page load times mean that your users will have a better user experience, resulting in longer stay times and more access. So in almost all cases, your pictures and videos are the most important elements on the page. Therefore, minimizing media delivery time, thereby reducing page load time, is almost the primary goal of every website and application.
Huosan Cloud Muti CDN solution automatically selects the best CDN to achieve the best per user experience. Huosan Cloud’s unique image and video management solutions can focus most of their efforts on helping you optimize resources to provide the highest quality functionality in the shortest possible time. Everyone who delivers media resources through CDN will automatically receive the resources delivered through CDN, so these resources are cached and easily accessible from different locations around the world.
However, as everyone knows, different CDN services have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the following issues need to be better addressed by each integrated CDN manufacturer: Which CDN service can best cover your target geographical location? Does your website or application require specific CDN features, but not all services can address these features? Is it possible to further optimize delivery by using different CDN services for different geographical regions, certain times of the day, or other performance variables?
Today, the product manager of Huosan Cloud will answer the mystery for you:
We all know that enterprises can optimize their solutions by periodically re analyzing regional performance, required functionality, and cost statistics, and then selecting different CDN vendors at the appropriate time. Even almost all large and medium-sized enterprises use multiple CDNs to optimize delivery at different times and in different regions. Unfortunately, configuration complexity, ongoing maintenance overhead, and overall costs often make such changes almost impossible for any enterprise other than a very large enterprise or mine.
Huosan Cloud Fusion CDN allows the rest of us to achieve this flexibility. After completing the initial setup process, customers using Huosan Cloud Muti CDN can now utilize one of the following two multi CDN optimization solutions:·
Dynamic CDN switching: Use real-time data to automatically select the best performing or most suitable CDN support service for each user request and location.
Intelligent CDN selection: Dedicated support engineers can help you determine which supported CDN services are best suited to your desired functionality and target audience
Both options make converged CDN the best solution for optimizing content delivery, allowing you to focus on your real business.
Dynamic CDN switching: the world’s best choice
The increasing emphasis on Web performance has led to more CDN vendors, each with its own value proposition and ecological closed-loop. Although most CDN vendors tend to provide good services to users, there is still no vendor that can provide the best performance for all traffic types anywhere and at all times.
Assuming that your website or application utilizes a common subset of features that are as effective as all supported CDNs, you can help ensure that your content is always delivered to each user through the fastest delivery network by activating the Huosan Cloud Convergence CDN switching service. Regardless of which CDN service you currently use, the URLs you use to deliver content are the same, so the huge headache of selecting, setting, and even dynamically switching between CDNs has become a very simple and transparent process.
This automated CDN switching service routes users based on geographic location, HTTP round trip time (RTT), and various other variables, and directs each user to a specific CDN edge server based on the intersection between server load and geographic location, while avoiding temporary outages or reduced availability of CDNs. It continuously collects this data so that the best real-time routing decisions can be made every time a request is received.
From a developer’s perspective, this dynamic converged CDN switching option essentially combines the networks of multiple CDN providers and operates as a large global distributed network, improving overall availability and coverage. For each user request, content will be provided from the best performing or most appropriate source, maximizing the delivery performance of your website or application.
For example, images in URLs may be provided to you through Akamai CDN edge nodes. Upon request, the image will be resized and art filters applied instantly, cached on the nearest Akamai edge server, delivered to you, and then quickly propagated to the cache of all other Akamai endpoints. After a moment, the converged CDN switching service may route the same converted image to users on the other end of the world through Alibaba Cloud, and route it to colleagues living in the next time zone through the terminal node of the CDN77. In a very short time, this transformation of bridge.jpg has been cached on multiple CDN networks around the world, making it available to almost all users anywhere.
Although fusion CDNs generate a small amount of delay when examining recently collected real-time data to select the best CDN for each request. However, compared to the time it takes to always deliver resources to all geographical locations through any single CDN, the efficiency of the converged CDN option is far greater than the effect of a single CDN.
In addition to the built-in algorithms provided by default with converged CDN services, developers can also choose special rules to meet their unique needs and customer base. For example, you can decide to dynamically select only from selected CDNs in the Chinese market, while different CDNs constitute an alternative to traffic originating in the United States.
Intelligent CDN selection: addressing speed and functionality
CDN is not just about caching resources and providing content to users as quickly as possible.Huosan Cloud can utilize data captured by multiple CDNs from end-user browsers to provide special customization capabilities. For example, the automatic format (f_auto) option uses information captured at the CDN level about which browser is requesting files to provide each user with the best file format. The automatic quality (q_auto) function knows that when we receive data from CDN indicating that the user has set the save data option in their browser, it is provided in quality rather than quantity. You can also make your resource URLs more SEO friendly by using private CDNs or custom CNames, or by attaching dynamic suffixes to your resource URLs, using CDNs to resolve these suffixes. When the browser provides width and DPR values through the client prompt header, Umbrella Cloud receives and processes them at the CDN level, so that you can take advantage of the automatic DPR and automatic width (dpr_auto, w_auto) and other responsive image features in the site.
CDN has various methods to clear or invalidate cached resources, so that you can ensure that users see updated content in a timely manner (or no longer see deleted content). Some CDNs can provide cookie based authentication and other advanced access control features that help you control who has access to your private images and videos.
Different CDNs stream video in different ways.
CDN handles content such as SSL support and HTTP/2 support in different ways. If your website or mobile application utilizes CDN functionality, certain CDN services may better meet your needs than other services. Huosan cloud product experts work with selected enterprise level customers to determine the best CDN to meet their needs. In some cases, it can even be determined that certain types of resources should be delivered through one CDN service, and the remaining resources should be delivered through another CDN service. After determining the optimal CDN service, Huosan Cloud will process all CDN configurations and mappings between the CDN domain and the public domain, so that the resource URLs in the site or application never need to be changed. If it is determined in the future that another CDN service can better provide your content, the new configuration and mapping will again be implemented in the background.
Since its inception, the vision of Huosan Cloud has been to provide a complete integrated CDN management solution, so that developers from customer companies can focus on the original business and focus on the products or solutions they develop for their own users.
