San Francisco-based Fastly is a versatile cloud company with some big-name customers: New York Times, Spotify, Reddit, Github, Imgur, Airbnb, TicketMaster and more.
Fastly’s CDN follows the reverse proxy model, similar to Cloudflare. Instead of giving you a ‘cdn.mydomain.com’ address where you can store specific files, Fastly routes all website traffic through its servers. To make this work you must update the CNAME record for your site with the domain registrar, but after that it ‘just works’, no website code changes required.
Once configured, the system operates much like any other CDN. When someone visits your site, Fastly checks their location and fetches content from the nearest point of presence (PoP). The company offers powerful PoPs spread all around the world – 18 PoPs in North America, 2 in South America, 8 in Europe, 5 in Asia, 6 in New Zealand and Australia and 1 in Africa – so most web users should get a speedy response.
Fastly has highly configurable support for video caching. It can deliver any HTTP-based media streaming protocol, including HLS, HDS, HSS and MPEG-DASH.
Fastly’s server specs are a highlight, with 24TB of SSD storage, 768GB RAM and …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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