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Alibaba Cloud CDN

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What is Alibaba Cloud CDN?

Alibaba Cloud CDN delivers content to users from the nodes that are nearest them, accelerating the response to user requests and increasing the response rate. CDN also resolves the delivery latency problem that is usually caused by distribution, bandwidth, and server performance issues. CDN has been applied in multiple scenarios, including site acceleration, on-demand streaming, and live streaming.

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Blazingly Fast Reliable Content Delivery Network for your Web Application

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Partha RoyView profile
Lead Product Engineer in Engineering at Fasal - Grow More, Grow Better™ (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Alibaba Cloud CDN for Faster content delivery for static files for a project. It worked like a charm, the Global CDN network made delivering those files superfast enabling the project to perform blazing fast.

Pros

  • It provides a great documentation to get started with, which makes the life of Devs easy
  • The UI and the metrics graphs are beautify crafted, so all the insights can be easily seen when logged into the system
  • The product is really really fast, it makes your app fly. It gives the extra boost that you need in scaling up.

Cons

  • Alibaba Cloud CDN doesn't have the automatic SSL attachment to web apps, which can be great if provided.
  • A economical and startup friendly billing plan can be added.
  • CDN locations needs to be increased.

Most Important Features

  • Global Content Delivery Network
  • Zero Downtime Application
  • Solid Dashboard and analytics platform to check on the metrics

Return on Investment

  • Alibaba Cloud CDN has boosted our web performance by 300X which ensured more user to come to our platform
  • Addition of their CDN also guaranteed Zero downtime in our app.
  • Their faster issue resolving and great support engineers are always helping us whenever there's a issue.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare

Other Software Used

Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Lambda