NEW YORK — Hosting company Webair has unveiled an enhanced version of their Content Delivery Network, a global array of high-speed servers optimized for digital media.
It works like this: Clients typically will host their basic website files – HTML or PHP files, for example – but would host their heavier digital media files on Webair's Content Delivery Network, or CDN. When a surfer accesses a large movie file, it would download faster.
Webair Executive Sales Manager Gerard Helton explained to XBIZ that while a webmaster could conceivably host every file on their website on the CDN, a more common scenario would be to only host large digital media files on it.
Helton added that the CDN hosts content on a network of server clusters around the world, so that when a surfer downloads a file on the CDN, they will automatically access the closest server, and thereby get the content faster.
Existing Webair clients will be able to add CDN functionality to their sites through their existing control panels. Webmasters who host their sites with other companies are also welcome to host any of their content on Webair's CDN. Helton said that using the CDN is easy and involves no complicated changes in website code.
Webmasters who want to try out the service can email sales@webair.com.
It works like this: Clients typically will host their basic website files – HTML or PHP files, for example – but would host their heavier digital media files on Webair's Content Delivery Network, or CDN. When a surfer accesses a large movie file, it would download faster.
Webair Executive Sales Manager Gerard Helton explained to XBIZ that while a webmaster could conceivably host every file on their website on the CDN, a more common scenario would be to only host large digital media files on it.
Helton added that the CDN hosts content on a network of server clusters around the world, so that when a surfer downloads a file on the CDN, they will automatically access the closest server, and thereby get the content faster.
Existing Webair clients will be able to add CDN functionality to their sites through their existing control panels. Webmasters who host their sites with other companies are also welcome to host any of their content on Webair's CDN. Helton said that using the CDN is easy and involves no complicated changes in website code.
Webmasters who want to try out the service can email sales@webair.com.
