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Originally Posted by webair
Webmaster Checks,
The main differences between our CDN and the others including Level 3, is that our CDN offers PUSH Technology which gives the customer more control over the content on the CDN & allows for instant content updates without having to change meta tags or waiting for cache timeouts. This model allows for increased REDUNDANCY & SECURITY over traditional CDN models as well.
Here are a few other options that we offer with our CDN:
- Share bandwidth commits between your servers and your CDN.
- Drag and drop content from traditional hosting to CDN hosting
- Seamlessly integrated into our USER FRIENDLY control panel or simple FTP client.
- Full web based stats package included
All of this can be managed from one account! with level 3 it's a separate company so you will have 2 accounts to manage. If you are an existing WEBAIR.COM client you can manage everything under one account!
I'm not here to slam Level 3 or any of their clients such as Cave Creek, I am simply pointing out the facts. Level3 bought their CDN from Savvis, who bought it from Cable and Wireless, who bought it from Digital Island. If you are a business owner you can imagine the fallout of the people who created and managed it along the way! Level3 is a carrier company, not to mention it's simply older technology. With traditional cache based CDN your content is deleted after a certain set time parameter is reached. With our CDN your content is actually duplicated and stored across 15 locations and distributed instantly! It's always there!
This makes for a FASTER more ROBUST type of CDN...
Q & A::
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BrianL - We do not resell high winds.
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Karupted Charles - You know as well as i do how quickly technology changes! I invite you guys to come and test our services. BTW - How have you been my friend long time no speak =) Miss you bud!
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Grays "We (ATK) are using the Level 3 CDN and it is amazing the difference before and after. As far as performance its awesome, and we are getting some VERY competitive pricing on it. Now the only con I am seeing on it right now is the provisioning time is a little long, like usually a week, but for the price they are giving me I can not complain."
- We can set you up INSTANTLY if you would like a test please feel free to contact me. As far as rates go we are very competitive.
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jcsike - Our offer goes out to you as well please feel free to contact me If you would like to try us out!
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The last thing I want to do is get into a CDN pissing contest , but I want to address a few points.
1) The CDN you are buying from us is through Cave Creek. We are the reselling Level 3 and our team will be providing the support so it is also a one stop shop for service.
2) I was with Savvis before CC and I can tell you with utter certainty that the CDN which Savvis had is not what L3 is offering they have completely upgraded every single node on the network and have just around 3000 servers world wide. in over 70 countries.
3) Push technology is a good way to serve content , but it is ideally suited for what we call Long Tail content where it is a large library of files with varying degrees of popularity. L3 is already offering Net storage with 250TB of capacity which would make the pull pretty fast and the difference nominal. In April they will release the Long Tail offering with will use hierarchal caching. Push is also much easier to do when you have a small CDN network at fewer nodes.
4) also we are back in forth on CDN , but Level 3 also offer their completely rebuilt streaming network which allows flash or windows media at the same price and can support H.264 HD content.
Ok. I leave it there, and really I hate this having turned into a big commercial. I am sure WebAir is a solid company and I do not know much about what they offer so it would be irresponsible for me to judge.
on the L3 trace route issue. Long traces to a server is more about the network it is originating from than the CDN network. Certain European networks have issues in terms of where they drop the traffic and how the Teir 1 provider chooses to route it.
If you can send me the traces I would be happy to help you escalate it.