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CDN as a Service
A Content Distribution Network (CDN) is essential for companies looking to enhance their digital presence, particularly in today’s fast-paced online environment. A good CDN ensures that content is delivered quickly and reliably to users, no matter where they are located globally. This speed is crucial because even a few seconds of delay can lead to significant drops in user engagement and conversion rates.
By caching content on servers distributed across multiple locations, a CDN reduces latency, improves load times, and enhances the overall user experience, which is critical for retaining customers and driving business growth.
Beyond performance, a good CDN also bolsters security and scalability. As your company grows and its online traffic increases, a CDN can efficiently manage higher loads without compromising performance. It helps mitigate the risk of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks by distributing traffic across multiple servers, preventing any single point from becoming overwhelmed.
Additionally, a CDN provides secure connections and encrypts data, protecting sensitive information as it travels across the internet. For businesses, these benefits translate into a more robust, secure, and scalable online presence, enabling them to focus on their core operations while the CDN handles the complexities of content delivery.
CDN as a Service offers significant advantages by providing a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution for content delivery. One of the primary benefits is the ease of deployment and management. This eliminates the need for extensive technical expertise and reduces the burden on in-house IT teams. With CDN as a Service, businesses can quickly scale their content delivery capabilities based on demand, ensuring that users experience fast and reliable access to content without the hassle of managing the complexity.
Another key advantage of CDN as a Service is its cost-efficiency. Traditional CDN solutions often require significant upfront investments in hardware, software, and maintenance. In contrast, Lighthouse operates on a tiered pay-as-you-go model, allowing companies to only pay for the resources and support they actually use. This flexibility not only reduces capital expenditures but also enables businesses to better align their spending with their growth. Additionally, Lighthouse offers advanced features like real-time analytics, enhanced security measures, and automatic optimization, further enhancing the value and effectiveness of the service.
Our standard packages use either Edgio or Amazon Cloudfront as CDN. Both are in the Top 5 Global CDN’s and offer everything you need. If you have specific regional requirements, for instance for China, Australia or anywhere else, then we can add local CDN’s that specialize in that region to your contract. Because of our huge traffic volumes, our partners give us significant discounts and we share these discounts with our clients. Discounts that you would never get when you sign up with them directly!
We offer peace of mind
Websites are your first point of contact with potential new customers. And while it is no secret that a well executed website is essential, our research reveals that while 93% of marketing leaders believe innovation is critical to their web programs – 61% struggle with execution. Complex technologies, lack of required skills and constant change result in frequent issues and large fluctuations in customer experience. Using our services will improve the performance of your site for all customers across the globe, increase scalability, make it more robust and less vulnerable for hackers.
We act as a remote extension of your team that operates between your website and your customers. This ensures direct communications and superfast escalations when required. Our support team has built a great reputation because of its pro-activeness and willingness to help even if issues are outside our scope.
One of our customers told us that what really bought from us was to be able to sleep at night without having to worry about alarms going off.
What does it take to make the switch?
As always, we start with a high level discovery call to get to know each other. If you believe that our approach makes sense, we’ll arrange a second, more technical call in which we discuss your detailed, technical and business, requirements, your current setup, expected timelines and available budget. At this point we also get to know your team, processes, applications, infrastructure and we get to understand your business. We use this information to prepare a first proposal that we share with you. If you are not fully convinced, you can walk away.
After this the ball is in our court, we will prepare a (free) trial setup of one of your domains, that will connect either directly to your origin or, if this is not possible at this stage, to your current CDN. Usually this takes one, max two weeks to complete. We will monitor both your actual website and our copy to measure the performance of both and compare them. At this point you can test our trial installation any way you want. You can even run part of your production traffic through it if you want. You will have 4 weeks for this trial after which we will do a joint evaluation of the performance, potential improvements, our support and the way we work together. We use the data from the trial period to finetune our proposal. The proposal will be for a fixed price contract over a 1, 2 or 3 year period. This proposal will cover all aspects over our service, support and development included.
If you agree with the proposal (and sign the contract) we will (together) prepare a migration plan for the full scope and execute it. During this phase we will have weekly progress calls. After the go-live, the frequency of these calls will drop to bi-weekly or even monthly. There will not be a big bang event as we prefer a gradual migration with immediate roll-back capabilities. On an ongoing basis we will provide basic availability and performance monitoring, alerting and log analysis.
You will be assigned a dedicated account manager and support engineer and have access to our support desk.
