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Introduction to FlashEdge CDN

FlashEdge CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a web service that speeds up the delivery of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users.

FlashEdge delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. When a user requests content that you're serving with FlashEdge, the request is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency (time delay), so that content (typically images or other static files) is delivered with the best possible performance.

How does FlashEdge work?

• If the content is already in the edge location with the lowest latency, FlashEdge delivers it immediately.

• If the content is not in that edge location, FlashEdge retrieves it from an origin that you've defined, such as an HTTP server (for example, a web server), an Amazon S3 bucket, or any other publicly accessible origin that you have defined as the source of your content.

As an example, suppose that you're serving an image from a traditional web server, not from FlashEdge. You might serve an image, sunrisephoto.png, using the URL http://example.com/sunrisephoto.png.

Your users can easily navigate to this URL and see the image. But they probably don't know that their request is routed from one network to another, through the complex collection of interconnected networks until the image is found.

FlashEdge speeds up the distribution of your content by routing each user request through the worldwide optimized network to the edge location that can best serve your content. Usually, this is a FlashEdge server that provides the fastest delivery to the viewer. Using the optimized route significantly reduces the number of networks that your users' requests must pass through, which improves performance. Users get lower latency (the time it takes to load the first byte of the file) and higher data transfer rates.

You also get increased reliability and availability because copies of your files are now cached in multiple edge locations around the world.

FlashEdge distribution

To start using FlashEdge, you will first need to create an account and a distribution. After creating a new distribution, FlashEdge will create a new domain address such as xxxxxxx.flashedgecdn.net. You will then be able to use this address in your DNS or application. FlashEdge will automatically fetch and cache files from your origin server.

For example, if your file is located at: https://0.1.2.3/index.html The same file will now be available at https://xxxxxxx.flashedge.net/index.html