China Content Delivery Network - CDN
Locating your digital assets near your end user via a CDN will transform your web performance.
A Content Delivery Network increases the performance of your website in China by ‘caching’ or pre-saving images and website assets on multiple edge servers located throughout China. China is a massive country and coupled with the slowing effect of censorship, it’s easy to see how performance of websites hosted outside China can be an issue for mainland users.
Quick delivery
Even though we think of websites and internet files as being delivered at lightning speed, geographical distance can have a noticeable effect. The time taken for a webpage image or file to be served from New York to Washington D.C. or London to Edinburgh would be measured in milliseconds. Serving the same to a location on the other side of the world takes hundreds of milliseconds, whole seconds even and has a noticeable effect on your website speed.
A Content Delivery Network increases the performance of your website in China by ‘caching’ or pre-saving images and website assets on a CDN edge server located near the Chinese user. China is a massive country and a local CDN offers an affordable solution for quick digital asset delivery in China.
Host anywhere
The origin web assets to be accelerated via the CDN can be hosted within mainland China or outside. A Chinese CDN can also be combined with a global CDN for total global coverage.
Our services:
- China CDNs for companies with an existing legal presence within China
- Global CDNs to speed up Rest-of-World content as quickly as possible up to the border of mainland China (also known as 'rim servers')
- Linked China and global CDNs to provide total global coverage
- Bespoke China CDN alternatives for companies with no Chinese presence still requiring CDN solutions within China
Data Transfer Acceleration
West-China data transfer is one of the main considerations to be addressed by global companies rolling out SaaS solutions in China. Online client-facing services and associated functionality often require a dynamic, real-time transfer of data between servers to perform. Duplicating operations and syncing data within China can impact services and global roll-outs face significant delivery issues when the China market is addressed. A transfer acceleration service solves this issue.
Providing acceleration to improve data transfer speeds in turn improves user experience. When a data transfer request is sent, it is resolved and routed over an optimal network path and protocol using data centres both in China and worldwide. The solution is perfect for dynamic content, file uploads and downloads with consistent data transfer using optimum network routing for an improved end-user experience.
CDN options for non-Chinese entities
Using a China CDN still requires your organisation to have a Chinese business license, for example operating as a Wholly Foreign-Owned Entity (WFOE) in China. Hosting files on CDN edge servers still falls under the remit of the Chinese authorities and is treated the same as hosting websites in China - an ICP license needs to be acquired.
We have a Mainland China Bucket CDN service option for non-Chinese entities which will allow your business to take advantage of the Chinese performance advantages of a CDN, hosting assets in mainland China without the above legal restrictions.
This service offers a cloud object storage resource within mainland China. You’ll find this a useful solution to host your website images, javascript, stylesheets and other files from within China. It’s available to companies without any Chinese entity and without an ICP license. For full details on the availability of this service, please enquire directly.
