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Blog Why A Resilient Content Delivery Network

A content delivery network (CDN) provides websites with resilience and the ability to bounce back quickly from difficulties by distributing content across a global network of data centers. This ensures fast response times, scalability, and uptime even during attacks or spikes in traffic. Imperva's CDN offers advanced caching, load balancing, and custom rules to securely deliver dynamic content quickly around the world. It is built into Imperva's web application and API security platform to reinforce resilience against cyber attacks.

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Blog Why A Resilient Content Delivery Network

A content delivery network (CDN) provides websites with resilience and the ability to bounce back quickly from difficulties by distributing content across a global network of data centers. This ensures fast response times, scalability, and uptime even during attacks or spikes in traffic. Imperva's CDN offers advanced caching, load balancing, and custom rules to securely deliver dynamic content quickly around the world. It is built into Imperva's web application and API security platform to reinforce resilience against cyber attacks.

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Why a Resilient Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Key to

Website Performance
Application Security

Author: Grainne McKeever


Release Date: Oct 11, 2022
3 min read

Today’s online users have built-up certain standards of quality when visiting a website. They
expect a high performance website with fast page load times and easily accessible, fresh and
dynamic content. They also expect to enjoy a seamless and secure experience without
downtime or limitations to content access. As for website managers, they strive to provide the
most enjoyable digital user experience for their customers by offering fast response times and
strong performance from their website even in times of high volumes of traffic and when under
security attack.

To achieve this, websites need to be scalable and resilient. They need to be equipped to cope
when things go wrong, in the case of a DDoS or bot attack, or when things go well and they
experience a sudden surge in traffic to a website.

‘Resilience’ is the ability to ‘bounce back’ quickly from a crisis, or, as the Oxford Dictionary
defines it, “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties” or “the ability of a substance or
object to spring back into shape; elasticity”.

For website managers a robust content delivery network (CDN) provides that elasticity for their
site to ensure the levels of availability, speed and performance that customers have come to
expect no matter the circumstances.

Content Delivery Network for faster response times


A content-distribution network (CDN) is a network of data centers which work together as a
single service that provides performance benefits to both application users and operations alike.
Benefits include faster and more consistent response times typically accomplished by
concurrently serving content out of local data centers with a closer physical proximity to end
users than the server of origin, thus cutting down on transit time and distance.

Imperva’s CDN offers advanced content caching, load balancing and custom rules capabilities all
within a secure single-stack Web Application and API Security (WAAP) platform to ensure
content on our customers’ websites and applications is delivered securely and consistently
around the world.

Super fast and efficient access to dynamic web content


Imperva CDN uses advanced caching techniques to accelerate site speed and improve the
customer experience. Intelligent caching functionality such as Smart cache leverages machine
learning to efficiently cache dynamically-generated pages by tracking content usage patterns
and auto optimizing storage and delivery. Benefits of Smart Cache include cache adjustment for
regionally popular content and automated cache rules for frequently accessed materials. And
there are savings to be made, too. Automatic caching for frequently used content reduces costs
by lowering bandwidth usage.

Distribution and scalability across a global network


Load balancing offers greater operational efficiency to your application delivery by distributing
user requests across origin data centers and servers to achieve the best performance and
response times. In addition, it helps to ensure site availability in the case of a malfunctioning
server or data center by routing traffic to a healthy server. Imperva uses advanced load
balancing algorithms to make sure requests are always routed to the origin server with the
smallest load. This keeps the load evenly distributed across the origin servers to improve
performance and enable scalability. The Imperva Load Balancer also plays a major role in
Disaster Recovery planning acting as an automated solution for site failover. When selecting a
load balancing solution it is important to evaluate which is the best fit for your infrastructure,
availability and growth strategy.

Improve site speed and manage traffic during peak times


Other Imperva CDN benefits include Content Optimization, such as minification and
compression, to improve page load times and increase site speed while the Imperva Waiting
Room helps you better manage traffic to your website during peak times by enabling you to
place them in a virtual queueing system for access to your site. Waiting Room prevents sites
from going offline and keeps your customers on your site ultimately resulting in higher
conversion for transactional or retail sites.

Built within a WAAP platform resilience


Of course the Imperva CDN is built within our single-stack WAAP platform which reinforces site
resilience by combining WAF and API Security, DDoS Protection and Bot protection all in one
comprehensive platform. Websites are protected from the latest security threats avoiding costly
downtime and recovery time as a result of cyber security attacks aimed at overwhelming the
application such as a DDoS or Bot attack.
Custom rules for speed and security of delivery
With security in mind, one of the key features of our CDN is our Custom Rules Engine which
offers self-service rules customization to allow you to quickly adapt to the needs of your
environment and make fast decisions based on visit and request attributes without changing the
user-facing URL. The rules engine offers capabilities such as ResponseHeaderOverride which
not only provides faster response times but also offers a real boost to your website security by
protecting it from vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting and Clickjacking.

Ultimately the CDN that you choose will be the driving force behind your website giving you
precision control over your site performance, speed, and resilience that your customers have
grown to expect.

Read more about Imperva Application Performance.

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