PUSHR CDN Blog

We've been receiving some criticism for some time regarding our website being slow which, let's be honest, is not a great self-advertising for a CDN service. PUSHR CDN does not advertise website acceleration at all among the services that we offer as that is not our specialty, and our website was not accelerated by our CDN. Since a redesign was due, we've decided to host the new website directly on our CDN network and see where this goes in terms of speed, especially compared to other CDN services that claim to specialise in website acceleration.

We're happy to announce that our network across the United States continues to grow and today we've enabled two new points of presence in Atlanta and Ashburn. This makes PUSHR CDN one of the fastest video, live streaming and Software delivery CDNs across the south-eastern coast of North America with average latency of just 8ms for the whole perimeter from Montreal in Canada to Miami in Florida and the dedicated capacity to match.

We are happy to announce that after a month of testing, two weeks ago we've silently released our anycast DNS to all customers. Anycast is a routing method in which a single destination address is routed to multiple endpoint addresses. The shortest network path between the client and the server is being used automatically to ensure low latency and fast connectivity, and in the event of a failure of one or more endpoints, the algorithm will exclude them from the mix, redirecting all requests to the healthy ones. Just like our failover system system does for PUSHR CDN's edge network.

One of the main ways for a content delivery network to accelerate a piece of content is to cache it on an edge server in close proximity to the visitor. Once cached (usually after the first request) the content is served to all visitors at high speed, without the need to contact the origin, which may be physically located in a distant country or even on another continent. This greatly accelerates the rate at which visitors can fetch a copy of your content and it also allows you to scale seamlessly since all the load from the origin is shifted to the CDN.

We are happy to announce 3 new data centres in North America, South Europe and Asia! These new locations make for a total of 12 non-federated, bare-metal points of presence with guaranteed bandwidth and dedicated edge cache on our network.