Category:ProCDN

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(mt) Media Temple's ProCDN allows you to serve content at lightning speed world-wide from servers in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

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What is a CDN?

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. The purpose of the network is to improve loading times for your website, because the content can be pulled from a nearby server rather than one on the other side of the planet. The ProCDN is not a full hosting server. It works with your existing (gs) Grid-Service, (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server, or (ve) Server to make your files more accessible.

Is the ProCDN for me?

Any site that uses static content can benefit from the ProCDN. Static files will load more quickly for your viewers. Also, shifting the load for the static files to the ProCDN servers will free up more of your host server's resources to generate your dynamic content.

The ideal types of files to be hosted on the ProCDN are:

  • movies
  • images
  • large downloads
  • static HTML versions of your site
  • dynamic sites that use static files or that can be cached for a short period of time (this includes CMS-driven sites like a WordPress blog)

What do I have to do to get on the ProCDN?

You will need to purchase the service add-on. Then, for the simplest site configuration, you'll do a one-time setup to get your site hooked up to the ProCDN servers (see ProCDN:Get started).

You do not have to perform a migration; this is an add-on service that works with your existing site files.

Power users have additional configuration options to push or pull their content to the ProCDN.

Articles

Read below for detailed walkthroughs and other helpful articles.

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