Web Hosting Services Provider, Hostway, Premieres Content Delivery Network

Posted by Webhost - 31/08/07 at 10:08 pm

Web hosting and online technology services company, Hostway Corporation, has debuted a new content delivery network, incorporating significantly reduced web page load times.

According to the company, Edge Caching uses patent-pending technology to reduce web site abandonment by cutting the time it takes for web pages with large images or multimedia files to load. released Edge Caching, a CDN, or content delivery network that makes image and media-heavy web pages load in seconds.

Study after study has shown that people simply click away from a web site that takes more than a few seconds to load. Edge Caching improves the user experience by speeding content to the visitor’s browser. It is especially good for online stores with hundreds of product images, multimedia-heavy web sites and social media sites with many user-generated profiles.

The Edge Caching content delivery network is a group of servers strategically deployed in data centers across four continents (North America, Europe, Asia and Australia). The servers work together to determine the fastest path to speed the data to the user’s screen.

For example, without Edge Caching, a web page displaying multiple product images might take 3 to 30 seconds to load, depending on the distance between the user and the server. That’s even if it’s sent over a high-speed Internet connection. The same page using Edge Caching will load in less than .5 seconds, regardless of the distance from server to user. That time differential may be all it takes to lose a prospective customer to the dreaded back button.

John Enright, Vice President of sales and marketing of Hostway remarked, ”User expectations for immediate access to greater content on the web continue to increase. Hostway’s Edge Caching offering is our answer to the market demand for the technology to meet these expectations.”

Hostway Corporation provides web hosting services with eight locations in the US (Chicago (HQ), Austin, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (Belgium, France, Frankfurt, Hannover, London and Netherlands), Asia (Korea) and Australia (Sydney), Canada, Germany, Korea, and Australia. Serving customers both small and large, Hostway provides hosting infrastructure services with online tools to help customers broaden their reach and grow their businesses online. Hostway offers a wide range of managed hosting services ranging from Windows and Linux based shared hosting plans, to complete dedicated server and Enterprise managed solutions to over 400,000 customers worldwide.

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