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Originally Posted by TidalWave
at the moment we have not started reselling the level(3) cdn, though we may but for our mainstream customers who broadcast ESPN and Hockey games and stream their videos live and need it to satisfy the corps they have as clients.
the price difference for the very small benefit of the cdn is not worth it to most customers who actually are in the know and are not serving a live stream.
everyone else, will pay more just for the hype. everyone at phoenix forum was probably all "in the hype" of cdn and will pay more for bandwidth just because of that with no real benefits being received.
in the end a CDN will not give you much faster speeds in the USA. any good host can provide speeds fast enough to satisfy your members video viewing, no cdn required
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I am offering CDN at or Below what most players are paying for BW and have several customers who are using it who will disagree with you vehemently about US site performance.I have tested hundreds of sites in 10 years in CDN and I can tell you There are some pretty good hosters in the mainstream space including some very large companys, but still close to 60% of all mainstream sites use CDN with Akamai to deliver traffic even in the US . I understand your need to defend your hosting service , but to call CDN "hype" is just silly. CDN has been around for many years and every site you go to from Amazon to Google to Yahoo, etc has been using it for years. The only reason the adult community is not using it is because Akamai will not sell adult and until L3 stepped up to build their "blue" platform in conjunction with CaveCreek/CCbill there really were very few significant CDN options available to the space. Now there is and if we can price CDN at the same price as regular bandwidth and your site is faster all over the world
including in the US why wouldn't you do it?
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