Edgemesh is an interesting web acceleration technology which provides a simple and speedy way to accelerate your website performance.
Unlike content delivery networks (CDNs), which rely solely on an expensive network of data centers, Edgemesh works as a client-side platform. Once you’re set up, visitors to your site automatically become part of the Smart Mesh network and can transmit data peer-to-peer.
The underlying idea is simple. When you visit an Edgemesh-enabled site it runs a JavaScript which queries the service for local Edgemesh endpoints – other visitors to the site – which have website content you need. If they’re closer than the origin server, the assets are transferred from those endpoints and replicated to the browser cache. And if they’re not, your browser fetches the page from the origin server, as usual.
This is much easier to set up than a CDN. You don’t have to play around with subdomains or DNS settings, and there’s no need to modify any site code. All you have to do is add a JavaScript tag that points to a single JavaScript file, which you don’t even have to host. Everything else works automatically.
Initially the service works with …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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