New CDN Network Shortens the Distance

20 June 2011

New CDN Network Shortens the Distance between Your Web Content and Your Global Users

ICONZ has enhanced its service offering that will appeal to web site hosting companies and users with the launch of a very competitively priced global CDN network that eliminates the hop, skip and jump approach to data sharing between a New Zealand hosted website and a customer somewhere else in the world.

“In today’s competitive internet environment, customers won’t wait for more than a few seconds for a website to load before clicking away to another site. The ICONZ content delivery network (CDN) improves your user’s experience with faster load times, high-quality video and audio downloads and increased reliability,” says ICONZ Chief Executive, Sean McDonald.

The new Content Delivery Network, with nodes in 13 countries, increases efficiency and download speed by enabling content to be accessed from the server geographically closest to the end user. CDN overcomes bandwidth, CPU, and processing bottlenecks as popular or frequently requested data can be intelligently delivered to the end user in the most efficient way. Go to http://www.iconz.net/CDN for map of locations.

“The fewer the hops, the faster the delivery. It’s that simple,” Mr McDonald says. “Client web content will be cached offshore from the moment the first user hits their site here in New Zealand. It brings the website closer to the end user and is great for anyone who does business on the web and needs to provide uninterrupted, fast access.”

Mr McDonald says the new service is particularly timely given that traffic to NZ sites is running consistently higher because of Rugby World Cup interest.

“This service can reduce costs and provide a better user experience, eliminating congestion frustrations from popular sites and removing international traffic costs of website owners and website hosts full stop. “

Users also have the choice of setting up their website to only partially run off CDN with dynamic parts of the site being served directly from the New Zealand-based host - an important consideration in data sovereignty, he said.

ICONZ, the mid-sized, New Zealand owned managed hosting and business connectivity provider, owns its own international servers.

“Our prices are considerably lower than other competitors and there is no need to be an ICONZ client to purchase our CDN service,” Mr McDonald said. “It’s an easy to use and implement

content delivery solution that has been designed for wide application not just high-end web developers and programmers. All you need is a URL and with your images, Javascript, audio and video files and other static content cached on the ICONZ global network your website will run faster for your users. This is one short cut you can take. ”

ICONZ CDN Network at a glance

§ Competitive pricing and choice of plans

(for Pricing comparisons check out http://www.webdrive.co.nz/cdn/)

§ Enhances the users online experience

§ Accelerates content delivery

§ Provides reliability

§ High availability with content distributed across the globe, ICONZ CDN will re-route traffic to the nearest node if the initial server is down

§ Reduces latency and international traffic costs

§ Faster load times with servers automatically speeding data along the shortest possible route away from network congestion

§ Audio and video files play smoothly by speeding the data transmission and eliminating pauses in streaming content

§ Flexible, allowing parts of your website to be cached to CDN edge servers while dynamic data is still retrieved from the origin server by specifying non-cacheable paths

§ Security with ability to flag content as restricted and not suitable to minors.

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