Web services are taking over the world. I credit Twitter’s epic rise to the availability of a simple but rich API. Why not use the same model for your own sites? Here’s how to create a basic web service that provides an XML or JSON response using some PHP and MySQL.
This is the third method of the http video delivery. Unlike the first two methods: HTTP Progressive Download and Play, and HTTP Pseudo-streaming, this is a real streaming technology and it’s applicable for both live video and video on demand (VOD). Continue reading
I have gotten more and more questions about CDN architecture designs best practices and CDN architecture flexibility.
In the past two years, a number of vendors have moved into the CDN space. Their focus traditionally is in delivery appliances. They added request routing capabilities and now call it a CDN solution. But one CDN is not the other. Jet-Stream has been a leader in this market for almost 9 years now and we have encountered and identified quite a number of CDN design and architecture philosophy mistakes. For instance: Continue reading
We’ve worked hard to ensure that the JW FLV Player works seamlessly with the streaming services offered by most content delivery networks (CDN). Below you’ll find sample configurations for some of the more popular CDNs. Continue reading
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers several advantages over a plain webserver for streaming video. For example, a CDN will be able to speedily deliver your videos across the country and globe, it will be able to stream your videos instead of a download and it will be able to scale to large numbers of videos and viewers. Continue reading
This guide discusses and provides an overview on RTMP video streaming with the JW Player for Flash v5. Continue reading
This guide gives an overview of HTTP Video Pseudostreaming with the JW Player. This document only applies to Flash mode in JW Player. For HTML5 mode, pseudostreaming works by default in all browsers and with all servers. It needs no specific provider and options.
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The CDN market is a game of margins, vertical plays and network attributes. ATLANTIC-ACM surveyed 140 buyers of global CDN services to discover just what they want from these three areas. Continue reading
mod_cdn is an apache2 module developed at Voxel that makes VoxCAST and other CDNs easier to use by automatically “CDNifying” some HTML content and “originifying” the origin apache server to send proper headers, validate authentication tokens, etc. mod_cdn is meant to be installed and configured on a CDN customer’s origin server. With mod_cdn, turning up a CDN for your website is as easy as setting up a simple apache module. Continue reading
Web application firewalls provide security at the application layer. Essentially, WAF provides all your web applications a secure solution which ensures the data and web applications are safe.
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