{"id":5714,"date":"2013-02-05T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/feb\/05\/choosing-the-right-content-delivery-network\/"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:34:47","slug":"choosing-the-right-content-delivery-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/choosing-the-right-content-delivery-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the right content delivery network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sharon Florentine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharon Florentine is a freelance writer who covers everything from data center technology to holistic veterinary care and occasionally blogs for <\/em><em>Rackspace Hosting<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Generation Now. Today&rsquo;s users want information in an instant. Make them wait more than a second or two for your webpage to load and they&rsquo;ll surf over to the first competitor who feeds their demand for instant gratification.<\/p>\n<p>Using a Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network (CDN) to quickly load static elements of your site to hasten access can deliver quicker gratification for customers. And stickier eyeballs&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;and greater profits &mdash;&nbsp;for you.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, a CDN is a number of highly optimised web servers located around the globe, explains Joost de Valk in an article posted to&nbsp;Yoast.com. Though de Valk&rsquo;s article deals specifically with using a CDN to speed performance of WordPress sites, a CDN is beneficial &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharon Florentine<br \/>\nSharon Florentine is a freelance writer who covers everything from data center technology to holistic veterinary care and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting.<br \/>\nWelcome to Generation Now. Today&rsquo;s users want information in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}