New API IP Whitelist – Brings Enhanced Security

We have exciting news I wanted to inform you about.  As part of our commitment to feature releases and improved security we are adding IP filtering to our API.
So in order for you to be able to continue to make calls to our API, the IP of the server making the calls must be whitelisted in our system.  We will be blocking all IP’s that have not been whitelisted, on April 25, 2012.

 

If you need your IP whitelisted, it can be done in two clicks; we have instructions below:

First go to Manage Account and click the API Link:

Then after you click the Whitelist IPs button:

 

You can also email or chat with support directly to assist you with this.

SSL Acceleration – As easy as it gets!

SSL has always been a daunting task to implement for both system administrators and their providers. Typically, when users request SSL certificates, the outcome was difficult to both manage and enable. With our EasySSL set up, all system administrators will be happy and your users will have the sense of security.

New Features

We are very excited to have you use our new custom SSL. Here are some of the many advantages of our new custom SSL:

Instant Setup

We instantly and transparently order a new certificate for you, so you don’t have to worry about certificate management and implementation.

Fast Load Time

Having more efficiently programmed SSL Cipher allows for fast and secure transfer of data.

Reduce Costs

Eliminates the need to buy and install SSL-capable server software on every server within the network.

More Power

EasySSL Acceleration offloads the SSL processing to NetDNA’s infrastructure, allowing the origin servers’ CPU computational load to be reduced by 70%.

Custom vs Shared SSL

Choose a solution best suited to your needs as we offer two kinds of SSL certificates: one that is hosted on our domain (shared SSL), and the other on your selected CNAME (custom SSL). It can be a bit confusing to compare the benefits of the two. Here is a list of the main differences:

    Easy SSL – $24.95 per month

  • Google will rank your site higher as images point to your domain
  • Very easy to deploy as HTTP and HTTPS are on one domain
  • No need to worry about managing your certificates

    Shared SSL – FREE

  • HTTP and HTTPS on two domains – a bit harder to maintain and rewrite
  • No SEO benefits as images are not on your domain
  • Easy to enable in control panel
  • Completely free

Not only do we have new additions to our EasySSL, we have all kinds of other enhancements as well!

  • Our new Custom EasySSL has 1/2 the load time due to a more efficiently programmed SSL Cipher.
  • As we offload the intensive task of SSL, this allows your origin servers to scale easier and use less resources.
  • We have a completely worry-free setup; we do all the work to get you up and running ASAP!


SSL at a Great Price

Not only do we give you all of these features and more, we will give you all of these for only $24.95/month! If you want to try out our new custom SSL feature, just log into your control panel and purchase a custom SSL certificate by going to the SSL tab.

We hope you enjoy this new feature as SSL has never been as easy to implement; hope you find our custom SSL much easier to use, deploy and manage.

NetDNA Selects Unitas Global to Provide Network Management

Los Angeles, California — February 9, 2012 – Unitas Global, the leader in managed IT infrastructure outsourcing services, announced today NetDNA, a global CDN provider, has selected Unitas to provide network management services to enhance its product offering.

NetDNA was founded in 2009 to offer a competitive, technologically-superior content delivery offering compared to traditional providers. A key component of this offering is its unique combination of network routing providing higher performance with decreased footprint. Under the agreement, Unitas Global will leverage its expertise to optimize upstream carrier routing and provide a global point of contact through its Support Operations Center.

“We’re excited to be working with the team at Unitas Global,” said Chris Ueland, President at NetDNA. “Their background in building some of the largest IP backbones in the world will help us improve the performance of our content delivery services for our customers, and allow us to focus on our industry-leading content delivery management software.”

NetDNA’s selection of Unitas to provide managed network services speaks to the ongoing evolution in how companies procure and utilize IT infrastructure services. Companies are increasingly recognizing the need to leverage outside expertise so that they can focus on their core business functions.

“We’re happy to have NetDNA as one of our customers and partners,” stated Grant Kirkwood, CEO at Unitas Global. “We look forward to helping them grow their business by allowing them to focus on what they do best.”

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About NetDNA

NetDNA, LLC is a fast growing content delivery network (CDN), providing affordable content delivery solutions to over 6,000 customers worldwide. With extensive domain knowledge and several prior successful start-ups by the executive team, NetDNA allows customers to quickly and affordably implement CDN services on their site, to improve website performance. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. More information is at http://www.netdna.com.

About Unitas Global

Unitas Global is a leader in the emerging IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) industry. Taking advantage of its network and datacenter assets around the world, and those of over 100 technology and service provider partners, Unitas offers its flagship UnitasONE suite of outsourced IT services to companies around the world. UnitasONE allows companies to purchase their entire IT infrastructure as a single managed service, simplifying operations and eliminating capex, allowing companies to focus on their core business functions. Unitas is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Brussels and Hong Kong. For more information visit www.unitasglobal.com.

Media Inquiries

Ilissa Miller
iMiller Public Relations
+1.917.289.0787
pr@unitasglobal.com

NetDNA Selects Unitas Global to Provide Network Management

Los Angeles, California — February 9, 2012 – Unitas Global, the leader in managed IT infrastructure outsourcing services, announced today NetDNA, a global CDN provider, has selected Unitas to provide network management services to enhance its product offering.

NetDNA was founded in 2009 to offer a competitive, technologically-superior content delivery offering compared to traditional providers. A key component of this offering is its unique combination of network routing providing higher performance with decreased footprint. Under the agreement, Unitas Global will leverage its expertise to optimize upstream carrier routing and provide a global point of contact through its Support Operations Center.

“We’re excited to be working with the team at Unitas Global,” said Chris Ueland, President at NetDNA. “Their background in building some of the largest IP backbones in the world will help us improve the performance of our content delivery services for our customers, and allow us to focus on our industry-leading content delivery management software.”

NetDNA’s selection of Unitas to provide managed network services speaks to the ongoing evolution in how companies procure and utilize IT infrastructure services. Companies are increasingly recognizing the need to leverage outside expertise so that they can focus on their core business functions.

“We’re happy to have NetDNA as one of our customers and partners,” stated Grant Kirkwood, CEO at Unitas Global. “We look forward to helping them grow their business by allowing them to focus on what they do best.”

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About NetDNA

NetDNA, LLC is a fast growing content delivery network (CDN), providing affordable content delivery solutions to over 6,000 customers worldwide. With extensive domain knowledge and several prior successful start-ups by the executive team, NetDNA allows customers to quickly and affordably implement CDN services on their site, to improve website performance. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. More information is at http://www.netdna.com.

About Unitas Global

Unitas Global is a leader in the emerging IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) industry. Taking advantage of its network and datacenter assets around the world, and those of over 100 technology and service provider partners, Unitas offers its flagship UnitasONE suite of outsourced IT services to companies around the world. UnitasONE allows companies to purchase their entire IT infrastructure as a single managed service, simplifying operations and eliminating capex, allowing companies to focus on their core business functions. Unitas is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Brussels and Hong Kong. For more information visit www.unitasglobal.com.

Media Inquiries

Ilissa Miller
iMiller Public Relations
+1.917.289.0787
pr@unitasglobal.com

MaxCDN at SCALE 10x

The MaxCDN operations team as well as friends and colleagues of our company will be on hand during the convention, as well as walking the Exhibit Hall floor.  As past sponsor of Scale 9x, how could we miss the oppurtunity to attend, especially since its in our own backyard of Los Angeles, CA!

MaxCDN as well as its parent company, NetDNA, are active community contributors to many Open Source software projects, and let’s face it, Linux does dominate our office desktop and laptop installs, mostly used by our networking and operations teams.  Our other teams aren’t there yet with Sales on Windows machines and our creative genius on Macbooks and modified Mac minis (SSDs are your friend).

If you have any Content Delivery Network (CDN) questions feel free to find us and ask.  You can also tweet @maxcdn #scale10x and our event coordinator can connect you with one of our employees in attendance.

Save the Internet: Stop SOPA

Save the Internet: Stop SOPA

We here at MaxCDN try to leave political commentary to experts.  However, when such an impactful piece of legislation, such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) gains as much momentum and notoriety that it has, we feel it necessary to comment on the proposed legislation and help provide some clarity on the very real dangers that passing this bill will present to Internet based business, including our business and the businesses of our customers.

Background on SOPA:

The Stop Online Piracy Act, also known as H.R. 3261 is a bill that was introduced to Congress in Oct. 2011 for the purpose of fighting online trafficking of copyrighted intellectual property. The SOPA legislation provides relief for content creators through broad means of preventing access (blacklisting) to the website that contains alleged infringing content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Existing legislation for the same purpose: 

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is the current means of enforcing the rights of Copyright holders against infringers who use the Internet as a means of trafficking or distributing infringing content (knowingly or unknowingly).  There has been substantial precedence created by the case law generated after the initial DMCA legislation was adopted.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

Problems with the Bill:

  • Not capable of effectively performing its intended purpose.  The bill has the justifiable intent of preventing the illegal distribution of protected intellectual property.  The problem is not with the intent of the legislation, it is with the execution of how the bill attempts to execute this goal.
  • Authors of the bill, and experts that were asked to testify for Congress, admittedly do not understand how DNS actually works, nor were they able to explain to Congress the impact this legislation would have on such critical Internet functions.
  • Case law will need to be developed to understand exactly how the legislation will be enforced.
  • The bill will blacklist a websites hostname on US based DNS servers, but not block the associated IP address.
  • The legislation can be circumvented in a number of very simple ways.
  • This blacklisting of DNS entries will likely create a fragmented global DNS system, encouraging websites to use off-shore DNS servers, or to potentially move operations overseas as well.

Why this should matter to you: 

The broad sweeping language in the SOPA Bill, would grant significant power to Copyright owners to immediately shut down allegedly infringing websites.  Such sites include staple Internet companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google.

Current Supporters of SOPA:

SOPA is supported primarily by the entertainment industry.  You can view a current list of these companies, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_support_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

It is also important to note, that all of these businesses that support the SOPA legislation do not have significant online businesses, in fact many have been on the incumbent’s receiving end of deflationary economics (explained well in Mark Suster’s article here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/12/22/the-amazing-power-of-deflationary-economics-for-startups/) simply meaning that these large dinosaur industries have seen their large margins diminish as disruptive companies and technologies continue to be introduced.  Think iTunes for the music industry, and Netflix for the entertainment industry.

The legislation appears more like a veiled attempt to curb the growth a competing industry, than it does a means of protecting Intellectual Property (which the Bill won’t actually be effective at actually doing).

Opponents of SOPA: 

SOPA is pretty much universally opposed by Internet based businesses.  Businesses that operate primarily on the Internet, such companies include: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, eBay, and Wikimedia and of course MaxCDN ;) .

On Dec. 22nd GoDaddy published a press release that discussed their support of SOPA.  This resulted in the story being picked up by Reddit and quickly circulated the web based community.  The founder of Wikipedia even publicly voiced his opposition and that he was moving his domains from GoDaddy.  The following day, GoDaddy responded by changing their position on SOPA, now opposing the Bill.

What You Can Do?

Take action and sign this anti-SOPA petition: https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173

Browser Plugins: 

We have created a browser plug-in that alerts you if a site uses GoDaddy as a registrar or if the site that you are currently on is one of the companies that is supporting SOPA. Since GoDaddy is now opposing the bill now we have disabled the GoDaddy registrar alert.

We where not the only ones with this idea so there are a few plugins out there that are doing the same thing. Now it is your turn install one of the plugins and boycott, email, tweet or write a nasty letter so these companies wake up as well. It worked great on GoDaddy ;)

Chrome Extension by Andy Baird (@ajbaird) and Tony Webster (@webster)

Firefox Add-on by Lautaro Orazi (@tarolandia) one of our developers @maxcdn

Please let us know your thoughts on SOPA and if you have ideas how we can improve the plugin or if you are a developer, fork it on github.

How MaxCDN Works Video

Hey! So we recently made a short clip on how MaxCDN works!

We wanted to share it with you!

Check it out! :)

Please let us know what you think.

We love to hear your thoughts and see how we can improve it! :)

Thanks!

NetDNA Slashes Prices!

LOS ANGELES, Oct 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — NetDNA today announced online customer service features and new pricing for its content delivery services to make them easier to use, more transparent and the low-price alternative to comparable solutions such as Amazon CloudFront.

The growing importance of web performance optimization — which impacts everything from search engine rankings to online sales — has opened the content delivery network (CDN) market to customers who are turned off by the negotiated pricing schemes, service implementation delays and extra customer service charges that are pervasive in the industry.

One example is BuySellAds.com, an online ad buying and selling service that switched from Amazon CloudFront to NetDNA because its superior services enabled more complete file control. Complete caching control over files is critical to BuySellAds.com’s business in order to deliver fast service to its customers.

The changes impact NetDNA’s pay-as-you-go MaxCDN(TM) service for small and medium businesses customers and it’s enterprise-class NetDNA(TM) service.

NetDNA services for U.S. and European distribution are priced at six cents per gigabyte for the first 10 terabytes to as low as one cent per gigabyte for users who exceed 5 petabytes. For Asian distribution the price range is ten cents per gigabyte ranging to 3.2 cents per gigabyte for the same traffic volumes. Included in that pricing is custom secure sockets layer (SSL), 24/7 support via phone, email or chat, no overage penalties, service level agreements and customized service development via an XML application-programming interface (API) or through the NetDNA service team.

MaxCDN pricing includes an introductory price of $39.95 for the first terabyte of service. After that, prices range from seven cents per gigabyte for the first 10 terabytes all the way to two cents per gigabyte for services more than five petabytes. All of these services are global and feature unlimited zones and shared SSL.

The company has enhanced its online control panel for both services to provide access to real-time provision services and to cache purge capabilities. With this tool, customers can implement new zones or provision new accounts in real time. The tool also provides real time reporting and analytics on data transfers.

Additionally, the company is providing plug ins for instant integration with leading content management and blogging systems including Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, SocialEngine, X-Cart and others. Also, Amazon EC2 and S3 services integrate well with NetDNA.

“The need for CDN services is critical to every website owner who needs to improve user experience, monetize their website or boost SEO,” said David Henzel, vice president of marketing at NetDNA. “We’ve seen this shift happen before in the web hosting market, and with our enhanced services NetDNA is leading the way for this shift to happen within the CDN market.”

“While initially our decision to switch from Amazon CloudFront to NetDNA was because NetDNA offered better and fairer pricing and more control over our files, over time we have discovered that working with NetDNA means much more than simply cost and control,” said Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds. “A relationship with NetDNA is about having a true partner who is responsive and able to support our changing needs as our business grows and develops.”

Availability
The new pricing and services are available effective today. http://www.netdna.com/pricing/

To get more information on services, contact sales@netdna.com.

About NetDNA, LLC
NetDNA, LLC is a fast growing content delivery network (CDN), providing affordable content delivery solutions to over 5,000 customers worldwide. With extensive domain knowledge and several prior successful start-ups by the executive team, NetDNA allows customers to quickly and affordably implement CDN services on their site, to improve website performance.
The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. More information is at http://www.netdna.com .
SOURCE: NetDNA, LLC

SocialEngine Now Supports MaxCDN

SocialEngine has been out there for quite some time now, and since its initial release in 2007, it has now emerged into a powerful social networking service with tons of features. And now, in SocialEngine’s latest release that they deemed 4.1.8, the developers over at Webligo added six new and brilliant features! They added all kinds of features from performances updates to integration with several external services:

  • New Pages in the Layout Editor - Over 35 pages now available for editing with the layout editor – enhancing the full content management system experience. Read More…
  • Google Analytics ID Integration - Track your traffic. Easily integrate Google Analytics tracking code by just inputing your ID.
  • Affiliate branding option - Earn back your SocialEngine product fees and more! Join our SocialEngine affiliate program and input your affiliate ID into a field.
  • MaxCDN pull or rsync-based implementation of a custom CDN - Speed up your site! We’ve added StaticBaseUrl configuration parameters to allow static resources to be served and hosted by MaxCDN’s pull zone or other CDN/file-hosting services. Read More…
  • Viglink - Add an additional revenue source! To help increase our monetization offerings, we’ve partnered with Viglink – where if one of your users clicks through to a product or service and buys something, you earn a commission. Read More…
  • Minor performance improvements (more to come!)

The one feature we are very excited about is of course the MaxCDN pull zone support! We worked directly with their team to make sure MaxCDN’s pull zone will work with ease. With full CDN integration with both MaxCDN and all rsync-based CDNs, the SocialEngine script will now be able to perform much faster offloading its content off to a CDN.

We can’t wait to hear on how fast these SocialEngine sites will be able to run with CDN support. If you use SocialEngine, we would love to hear if you plan on integrating your social website with a CDN.

If you would like to view SocialEngine’s post announcing MaxCDN support, feel free to click on the link below:

http://www.socialengine.net/blog/article?id=178&article=Upcoming-Feature-MaxCDN-Integration-with-SocialEngine

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