The company currently runs 1 month Free Trial of the NetDNA CDN in order to help its customers to understand the advantages of using a global CDN.
Host Color, a provider of Linux VPS Hosting services, recently announced that it has made available the NetDNA global content delivery network (CDN) to all Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated hosting accounts. It currently runs 1 month Free Trial of the NetDNA CDN in order to help its customers to understand the advantages of using a global CDN. Every current or new customer of the company who wants to activate the NetDNA on account is granted a discount code CDN2HC which provides 25% off any future subscriptions after the Trial period expires.
The company mentions that the NetDNA Content Delivery Network features eight (8) edge locations in The United States (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Jose and Seattle) and six (6) peer U.S. locations (Washington D.C., San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Forth Worth and Houston). The network's latency is only 10ms from most of the United States, which means it significantly optimizing the Internet user experience. In Europe the NetDNA CDN features one edge location in Amsterdam and peer locations in London and Frankfurt. There are three additional peer locations in Amsterdam. The CDN is also an excellent choice for anyone who targets the Asian and Australian consumers and markets. With its four edge locations in Asia/Pasific and Australia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney) it will guarantee very low round trip delay for Asia Pacific and Australian internet users.
It articulates that edge locations are points of presence that are owned and operated by the CDN provider, while peer locations are gateways between the CDN provider's internal network and the Internet, and are only one hop away from the edge servers. NetDNA maintains upstreams through Mzima and Packet Exchange to offer 10 Gigabit backbone with over 1 Tbps of transit and peering capacity. The network of Mzima itself features over 600 peering partners worldwide, and direct reach into over 90 countries.
According to the company, the new NetDNA CDN capability added to its own fully-redundant network ensures the lowest possible round-trip delay for internet users in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It had announced December 2012 that it began adding CDN capabilities to hosting services. The company plans to offer its customers a choice between three different content delivery networks. One of them CloudFlare was activated in Q4 of 2011. The planned activation of second one, NetDNA was for Q1 of 2012.