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How do I choose the right CDN for my site/business?

If you have customers or offices worldwide, then there are chances that you require an access to the networking infra in order to deliver critical applications of business, and reliable and secure content to the end users. As per your requirements, you will search a CDN that can assist you to provide optimized online experience in an effective manner.

In order to choose a CDB provider from plenty of options, first you need to understand basics of it. CDS is operated on edge, delivers content via PoP – Point of Presence to the user on request.

Not each Content Delivery Network is made equally in order to perform globally nor everyone will suit your budget. Each business has different requirements, so keep the following five factors in mind before selecting a CDN -

1. What platform you have and what is the core business along with the features you need in your CDN for support? Is your business utilize image optimization, tokenization, or provide exact data to the users? Know that which security will be good for CDN. Reliability, flexibility, and security must be non-negotiable.

2. Capacity of CDN like what bit-rate is available on the network of CDN provider? What is the maximum support rate of website traffic and data transfer rate? You need to ensure that output is higher whatever the file size is.

3. You need to know the viewers, offices, buyers, and warehouses, where are they located and can they access content in a secure manner? How many PoPs are there in the network, where is the content served, and how it affect the deliverability rates?

4. Can you compromise on the performance? How CDN can optimize the page size and users can start an interaction with content post the request? It must contains dynamic online acceleration.

5. Budget is a key to keep any enterprise afloat. Therefore, keep in mind the pricing plans are very common and worth an investment in order to prevent security breaches as well as complicated agreements of partnership.