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Disaster Preparedness is Inherent in CDNs
CDNs minimize the need for “Website Disaster Recovery”. If you are well prepared for IT disasters, then you don’t need to waste unnecessary energy recovering from disasters. An unprecedented storm hit the Northeast recently, causing widespread outages across half-dozen states and leaving many businesses and families with substantial loss and damage. With about 1 million [...]
Facebook SSL Mandate: What is SSL?
Privacy and security is a critical concern among today’s Web business owners and their end users. The recent mandate by Facebook that all custom tabs on fan pages must have an SSL certificate is a testimony of that. SSL is a standardized protocol that provides privacy and integrity between two applications communicating using TCP/IP. One [...]
Global Internet Speedup Initiative: A Look Under the Hood
You have probably heard about it – the Global Internet Speedup Initiative. If you are already using a CDN provider, you are probably wondering if and how this can have any impact on your website speed and application performance. And what has DNS got to do with all of this anyway? In order to understand [...]
Internet Outages: They Can’t Be Avoided. But You CAN Cope.
The DNS outage heavily reported on Twitter this afternoon is another reminder of the fragility of the Internet. The Internet is undoubtedly the 8th wonder of the world. It is probably one of the largest, most globally collaborative, man-made entities that has ever been built. Composed of so many moving parts, it’s amazing that it [...]
Reaching Asia’s Consumers: Can One Content Delivery Strategy Work across All Countries?
A decade ago Japan consistently set the Internet consumer trends across Asia. Fast forward to today, and wow! ― how things have changed in Asia. New countries have emerged as trendsetters, and some countries have matured into their own unique Internet economies. Consider Vietnam, for example: 50 percent of its population is under the age [...]
IT Leaders: Transform Your SAP SSL-VPN Applications and Empower your Remote Workers
Computing has evolved a long way – from the limited capabilities of standalone PCs and mainframes of the 70’s to the web based delivery of applications. The global web harnesses all the good values of distributed computing except that it is largely unstructured & unpredictable. With the constant addition of new devices and endpoints, the [...]
An Indian Wedding and DNS-based Cloud Load Balancing
What can an experience in organizing an Indian wedding teach you about the benefits of a DNS-based cloud load balancer? Plenty, I’d say. Being able to direct traffic to the most optimal resources, in real-time, as user requests come in, is a skill that comes in handy when you are in charge of a wedding. [...]
Three Steps to Ensuring Unfettered Access to China’s Online Consumers
After spending great amounts of time, money and energy preparing your eCommerce, Travel or Web application for entry into China, the last thing you want is for your site to get blocked by the Great Firewall of China. The time, effort and expense involved in unblocking a website in China far outweigh the minimal effort [...]
Is Your Site PCI Compliant? What About Your Vendors?
For the past 9 months, CDNetworks has been working on obtaining PCI-DSS certification and we are pleased to have just received our certification. As director of product management, I am responsible for guiding the product portfolio and launching new products to market and overseen the PCI certification from end-to end. Having witnessed the certification process [...]
Welcome to Passport to the Web!
Welcome to our blog: Passport to the Web! We are a team of CDNetworks employees from around the globe who first and foremost love the Web. Every day we are still fascinated by how this network of networks has changed the world and continues to better connect people, ideas, and businesses. If you are new [...]
