Founded in 2011 to support online gaming, Luxembourg-based G-Core Labs now offers powerful management hosting packages and a very capable, enterprise-level CDN.
G-Core’s network covers more than 40 locations across four continents, significantly more than many competitors. The company hasn’t just crammed most of them into Europe and North America, either. Russia and CIS countries are covered by fifteen points of presence (PoPs), there are five in Asia, and others in Brazil, Israel, Dubai and Australia.
The core service is a pull CDN, where G-Core automatically grabs files from your servers as they’re required. A prefetching feature enables loading files before they’re first requested, ensuring users always get the best possible performance. There’s optional origin push support (G-Core stores all your content, reducing the load on your server) at extra cost.
Security features include free shared SSL, and the option to use your own custom SSL certificate at no extra cost.
Elsewhere, a strong feature set includes support for HTTP/2 and IPv6. Custom HTTP rules allow you to define exactly how and when content is cached and served, an ‘Instant Purge’ (which actually takes ‘several minutes’) feature clears the cache whenever you like, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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