Maximize your Content Delivery Network’s performance with Dyn’s CDN Manager
Use multiple Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers simultaneously for load balancing, load shaping and distribution with CDN Manager, an advanced feature available for DynECT Managed DNS clients.
Customers can test and try out multiple CDN providers by setting specific parameters for distribution and routing for each. By not giving any one CDN 100% of your traffic, less risk and greater stability are achieved.
How Dyn does it
CDN providers allow organizations to deliver streaming video, audio, downloads and other rich media to end-users in the fastest way possible, achieved by architecting and deploying content worldwide over distributed computer networks that are capable of maximizing throughput to end-users by directing them to the closest servers rather than to one central server.
Due to the complexity of these CDNs, many rely on IP routing technologies such as IP Anycast. as well as the global DNS system, to optimize delivery to end users and to provide geo-location and end-user targeting services. The CDN will provide a DNS hostname as the “entry point” into the Content Delivery Network.
While this affords a company control over which CDN provider they choose to send requests to, it gives them no capability to send traffic to multiple CDN providers simultaneously by weight. With Dyn’s CDN Manager, now it does.
Why you need it
Companies traditionally may have found it too risky to flip the switch and direct their traffic to another CDN provider — even if they aren’t 100% satisfied with the performance or pricing. By using DynECT Managed DNS and CDN Manager, companies can easily bring one or more CDN provider into the mix to test and peel traffic between multiple providers.
Once you find a formula that optimizes performance and reduces cost, you can feel confident in the provider and configuration you choose — all powered by the leaders in IaaS.
The Dyn Difference
Some of the features of Dyn’s CDN Manager include:
- Unparalleled flexibility for customers to use multiple CDNs
- Ability to use CDNs for Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
- Reduces cost by determining peak performance formulas and traffic bleed over
- Significantly reduces latency and end-user wait time
- Ideal for social media, mid-level/enterprise or media-rich businesses
How you get it
Become a DynECT Managed DNS client and ask your account rep about how to add this service. It’s that easy, so what are you waiting for?
Whitepapers
- CTO Tom Daly’s whitepaper on DNS-based Traffic Management for CDN