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Google Cloud CDN

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What is Google Cloud CDN?

The Google Cloud CDN is touted as a low cost option with tight integration with Google Cloud apps and services.

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Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Cloud CDN for live ecommerce and experience websites for our customers, the Google Cloud CDN is being used to distribute static assets and serve the final users with a lower latency. It is being used together with other services like Cloud Armor and Load Balancing since it's pretty easy to integrate together with those

Pros

  • Network Latency
  • Content Delivery
  • Static Assets

Cons

  • Advanced Image Management
  • Enhanced Protection
  • Ease of use

Return on Investment

  • Lower Costs for egress traffic
  • Higher ratings in website analysis tools due to improved networking

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Akamai App & API Protector, Akamai Ion, Akamai Bot Manager, Akamai CDN, Akamai mPulse, Akamai NetStorage and Cloudflare

Other Software Used

Cloudflare, Akamai CDN

Faster and secured loading of static content using Google Cloud CDN

Incentivized
Kashish Sharma
Jr. Marketing Executive in Marketing at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Cloud CDN comes with the package of Google Cloud and it is one of the fastest CDN available in the market. We are using Google Cloud CDN to host most of our static content and serve that content in secured methods. Using their Load Balancers and SSL, we can easily rely on Google Cloud CDN.

Pros

  • It is one of the most secure and fastest CDN available globally.
  • It helps in improving the performance of the website or web-apps.
  • It drastically reduces the latency, so the loading time of the content is reduced as well.
  • It allows using SSL for improved Security and serving the content using the HTTPS protocol.

Cons

  • Their support system is not competitive and takes a huge time generally.
  • Setting up for the first time might be a little complex thing for beginners.
  • Documentation needs so many updates and improvements.

Most Important Features

  • It allows SSL, so we can serve the content over secured protocols.
  • It has load balancers available globally, so makes the content delivery even faster.
  • It has low latency and superb performance.

Return on Investment

  • It helped us to improve the performance of our web apps.
  • Users are happy to see the faster loading of our website.
  • As this CDN is available all the time, we can run our website without any downtime.

Other Software Used

Google Cloud DNS, TeamViewer, TeamViewer Meeting (formerly Blizz)

Google Cloud CDN Helps Out the Little Guys

Incentivized
Cynthia Hinderliter
Dept Chair of IT in Information Technology at Pekin Community High School (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • The building and modernizing of apps
  • Data analysis
  • Security

Cons

  • Work with other integrations such as Smartphones
  • Monitoring and usage reporting
  • Support

Most Important Features

  • Anayltics
  • Pricing
  • Ease of Use

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use
  • Saved money
  • We don't have to maintain our own data center

Increase site loading speed with integrated and modern smart cache

Incentivized
Ali KazempourView profile
Information Technology Adviser in Information Technology at AZEREX LLC. (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • The intelligent categorization and management of site content cache in Google Cloud CDN is unique and offers the best results with simple settings.
  • It has powerful servers in all geographical regions of the world and the speed of the site will increase many times for the customer with smart routing.
  • It has AnyCast IP feature and website receives a single global IP address. In this case, the site loads at the same speed worldwide.

Cons

  • When setting up, there should be a smart assistant with a calculator of estimated facilities and costs next to the Administrator to help IT manager to choose the best service.
  • Designing an artificial intelligence and using a learning machine to identify the best plan offered to customers after one month of using the service.
  • For beginners and novices, it's a bit confusing to add a simple plan to conceptualized these.

Return on Investment

  • It has certainly reduced costs and significantly reduced the loading of servers. It has always helped in times of high traffic.
  • Full integration with Google Cloud data storage also saves time and enhances change power.
  • Great for Streaming Video which increases the speed of playing live videos.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Azure CDN, KeyCDN and Akamai

Other Software Used

Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins, Google Cloud Storage, Google Analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud, SolarWinds Backup

One of the best CDN to host static contents over the internet

Incentivized
Lokesh Meena
Project Manager in Product Management at FlipPaisa (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • It is one of the best CDN in the market as it has google at its back, it has the highest uptime.
  • This really helps us to reduce the loading time of content as well as site, blog or portal.

Cons

  • It needs very much learning experience. Beginners have to learn so much before actually setting it up.
  • Not so good for small organisations as the pricing is higher than other options.

Return on Investment

  • Reduced the portal loading time saves time.
  • Promotional mails opens in few seconds when clicked, generates a little bit of confidence in the end users.

Alternatives Considered

Fastly

Other Software Used

Google Cloud DNS, Google Cloud SQL, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)