The internet is broken...

Since the inception of OnApp our mission has been to help service providers offer leading cloud and CDN products to their clients. We have spent the last decade building disruptive technologies that help our partners be competitive, and make the Internet a better place to do business. 

That is what we do at OnApp - we provide the underlying technology that powers the Internet, all the way from the virtualization layer, storage and networking, through to the distribution of content via our CDN platform, and our federation of partners around the world. And we empower more service providers than any other public cloud platform on the market. 

So how is the Internet broken?

It has always puzzled me that the point of distribution - like a website, or a server - is determined by the distributor rather than the users, the people consuming the service being hosted. Typically a website or service would have a single distributor, but potentially millions of consumers/users.

For example, if a user in Calcutta is reading a blog or downloading a file from a server in Chicago, the data has to be transported all the way from the distributor - the origin server in the USA - to the point of consumption, the user's PC or mobile phone in India. It's slow! Slow means a bad user experience - and as local Internet connections get faster, the network latency caused by long distances is now more obvious than ever. 

Why wasn't the Internet built so that latency was minimized, and consumers would get the best experience possible? I struggle to think of another consumer-driven marketplace that works like this. We get our milk from the local supermarket, not the farm. We refuel our cars at the gas station, not at the refinery in Kuwait. From this perspective, the Internet is just poorly architected. It is fundamentally broken!

Why CDNs are the answer... and why nobody uses them

Content Delivery Networks were designed to solve this problem, by caching web content at the closest possible point to the user, to ensure they have a better user experience. CDNs reduce load times, improve conversion rates, reduce bounce rates, improve SEO and generally make the Internet a better place to be, whether you're running a website or consuming web content. 

But... while they work really well, they also introduce another complex technology to the mix, and more vendors that website owners have to work with. 

As a result, only 6% of websites are using a CDN today. That's right - just 6%. The vast majority of businesses just aren't able to take advantage of the benefits CDN offers.

So, here's what we're going to do

With the release of OnApp 6.0, I am thrilled to announce that we are making a significant move to enable our partners, like you, to really make a difference to this crazy situation. We will now include our CDN accelerator for free, for all public clouds running OnApp. 

Through our federation of partners, OnApp has one of the largest Content Delivery Networks on the planet, with terabits of capacity and literally hundreds of Points of Presence around the world. Our CDN has powered some of the largest media events out there, and unlike traditional CDNs, the OnApp platform does not require DNS changes or CMS/HTML integrations - our patented CDN integration all happens with the click of a button.  

It's easy.  You don't need any CDN expertise. And now it is free for everyone. We cover the cost of bandwidth, we maintain the software, and you can give your clients a unique advantage that will help you convert more business, and retain your existing clients for longer.  

Together we can fix the Internet, and make it a better place to do business.

Go to https://www.accelerated.site to see how much faster your site or server would be with OnApp 6.0, or go to https://onapp.com/onapp-accelerator/ to read more about what we've build.