Background information
In the era of news media, diversified content is communicated in different ways. Media service platforms are characterized by a large number of users distributed across a wide range of geographical locations, strong timeliness, and sudden traffic spikes. To make your media service platform stand out, you must provide fast content loading, stable services, and unparalleled user experience.
Alibaba Cloud Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN) has over 3,200 points of presence (POPs) that are distributed around the world. DCDN provides features, such as dynamic and static content delivery acceleration, intelligent routing, transmission protocol optimization, and content protection. These features can meet the requirements of news media platforms for high reliability, superior user experience, and high concurrency.
Architecture
Alibaba Cloud DCDN accelerates the delivery of static and dynamic content, including audio and video content. You can quickly retrieve static content from POPs. The requests for dynamic content are redirected to the origin server over the most efficient route, which improves user experience and ensures service availability in daily and emergency scenarios. You can access DCDN without modifying the business logic.
Scenarios
Breaking news
Requirements: News media is unpredictable. Breaking news tends to cause traffic spikes. In high concurrency scenarios, news media platforms require more bandwidth resources, higher server performance, and quicker response to ensure that the origin server does not crash due to numerous requests.
Benefits: Alibaba Cloud DCDN provides features, such as sequential processing of origin requests and load balancing across multiple origin servers, to reduce origin strain during traffic spikes. The content about breaking news is cached on global POPs. You can directly retrieve the cached content from the nearest POPs. This way, user experience is improved and the loads on origin servers are reduced.
Website or app acceleration
Requirements: News media websites or apps include not only numerous static content such as texts and images, but also dynamic content, such as real-time comments, HTML5, and audio and video live-streaming resources. Therefore, the timeliness of resource upload and distribution is critical. When hot spots burst or during national holidays or important events, the website may experience latency or become inaccessible. This affects user experience.
Benefits: Alibaba Cloud DCDN provides numerous POPs and large bandwidth capacity to support hundreds of millions of concurrent queries per second (QPS). You can access DCDN to accelerate the delivery of your website content. DCDN integrates the acceleration technology for static and dynamic content. Static content is cached on POPs that are nearest to users. Requests for dynamic content are redirected to the origin server over the most efficient route, which accelerates content delivery.
News interaction
Requirements: In the Internet Plus era, news media platforms are becoming increasingly interactive. Dynamic requests, such as likes, comments, and replies, must be redirected to the origin server for subsequent processing. This poses a challenge to the performance and stability of network transmission links.
Benefits: Alibaba Cloud DCDN provides intelligent routing and transmission protocol optimization to accelerate the response to dynamic requests. For dynamic requests, DCDN automatically avoids links with network jitter and congestion and selects the optimal route to deliver resources to ensure the timeliness and stability of news interaction.
News media live streaming
Requirements: The rise of news media live streaming poses increasingly high requirements on user experience. A stable and reliable network architecture is necessary to solve network latency caused by high concurrency and ensure high availability of news services.
Benefits: Alibaba Cloud DCDN provides advanced technologies, such as load balancing across multiple origin servers, sequential processing of origin requests, elastic scale-out architecture, and real-time monitoring. These technologies can be used by news media enterprises to build a highly available and reliable network architecture.
Benefits
Smooth user experience
An optimal network experience can help increase customer retention.
High availability
The elastic scale-out architecture, load balancing mechanism, and real-time monitoring for origin servers help build a highly available network architecture.
Easy access
You can quickly access Alibaba Cloud DCDN by using simple UI configurations without modifying your business logic.
Cost-effectiveness
You can shift the computing and bandwidth resources from the origin server to the POPs to reduce costs.
Quick start
You can access DCDN by following the procedure.
Scenario | Description | References |
Quick access to DCDN | Quickly activate DCDN to accelerate content delivery. | |
Dynamic and static content delivery | Intelligently identify static and dynamic content. Static content such as images, JavaScript Style Sheets (JSS) files, and CSS files is cached on DCDN POPs. Users can directly retrieve the cached static content from the nearest DCDN POPs. Requests for dynamic content, such as POST requests, are redirected to the origin server over an optimal route selected based on intelligent routing. | |
IP Application Accelerator | Provide services to non-standard HTTP protocol users, especially those using Layer 4 proprietary protocols. IP Application Accelerator (IPA) accelerates network transmission, reduces access latency, and improves service availability. | |
Security | Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects web servers against vulnerabilities, such as domain hijacking, website vulnerabilities, and data leaks. Bot traffic management protects your business from malicious traffic or crawlers. | |
More acceleration regions | Global and Global (Excluding the Chinese Mainland) are supported. Requests can be scheduled to POPs that are nearest to the users. |