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Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the it'll-never-get-out-of-beta dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Google has quietly started offering Google Cloud CDN service, a new content-delivery network (CDN) that should appeal to independent developers who want their applications to load quickly.

For its "alpha" release, Google is now accepting applications from people who want to try the new service, which is limited in geographical availability. More locations will be added when the service becomes generally available.

"Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge caches to cache HTTP(S) Load Balanced content close to your users," the product description states. "Caching content at the edges of Google's network provides faster delivery of content to your users while reducing the load on your servers."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:54PM (#276866)

    I wish I could get a telephone loopback of some kind that is valid for use yet won't contribute to unsolicited traffic between my devices... tell you what vendors, I'll log into your website to check out the exciting offer. it costs too much for me to get them at 10 cents per SMS.

    Airplane mode may be your friend. (if disables the cellular, but not WiFi radio). Of course, you can still be tracked by MAC address.

    I am not clear what you mean by "loopback". In context, is sounds like you want to log onto their website (presumably in private browsing mode) to get any coupons.

    I have been working on becoming my own cell-phone provider with the help of Astersisk. So far my phone only rings while I am "home" though. My Cellular WiFi hotspot get a private IP address from the phone company, so I need to tunnel to my PBX box to get calls to work elsewhere.