September 16th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Voxel’s new open source Apache web server module allows customers to seamlessly offload rich media content from hosted infrastructure onto the VoxCAST CDN
For Immediate Release
NEW YORK/EWORLDWIRE/Sep 16, 2008 — Voxel dot Net Inc. today announced that it will offer fully-integrated, premium on-demand content delivery network (CDN) services as part of its standard hosting offering – at no extra charge. Branding this new innovation as Universal Transfer, Voxel becomes the first hosting company to allow its clients to mix and match their high bandwidth needs between dedicated servers and a CDN. For new and existing hosting clients, Voxel believes this will dramatically simplify the decision-making process regarding current and future capacity needs.
Starting today, companies who know they need hosting – but still may not know when or if they may need a CDN – can benefit from flexible customized contracts, transparent pricing, and the ease of working with the experienced and professional team of engineers at Voxel.
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September 16th, 2008
posted by Dr. Kris Beevers
Something we have a lot of experience with at this point is helping VoxCAST customers modify their websites to take advantage of the CDN’s static content delivery. Depending on how forward-thinking a customer was when they first built their site, the process can be as simple as switching a DNS entry. Typically, though, it’s more like:
- Look through the HTML, PHP, Ruby, Python, or whatever else for links to static content;
- Painstakingly edit the code to re-point those links to a new hostname, like
cdn.example.com; - Potentially (depending on the application) relocate all the actual content to a different origin server (for some of our customers with TB of data, this has taken weeks); and
- Finally, turn on the CDN, point
cdn.example.com at it, and hope you didn’t miss anything important.
In other words, turning up a CDN to serve your content can be a lot of work if you weren’t planning on it from the start.
Well, like all good engineers, at Voxel Labs we’re lazy. We don’t like to waste time doing boring stuff like poking through code looking for links to replace, and we’re pretty sure our customers share the sentiment. So we came up with mod_cdn, an Apache module that makes CDN-ifying a site ridiculously easy.
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May 20th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Rich Miller, of DataCenterKnowledge.com, discusses pricing, transparency and the challenge of the CDN industry. View the full article here.
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April 28th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Voxel, a New York-based startup, wants to upend the content delivery network business by offering an ultra low-cost service that rides on the back of Amazon’s S3 offering. It’s a move that is sure to further exacerbate the woes of the CDN business, which has already been wracked by price wars.
Read the full article on GigaOm.com
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April 25th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Re-Published from Contentinople.com by Ryan Lawler
Voxel Dot Net Inc. says it is going after Amazon.com Inc. ’s S3 storage service customers and is attempting to disrupt current content delivery pricing models, by offering pre-paid CDN services aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
The company, which started out as a managed hosting provider, recently jumped into the content delivery racket and has signed up a number of celebrity- and politics-related blog customers.
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March 26th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Lan Nguyen of TheStreet.com looked for Voxel’s insight on hosting, as it pertains to eCommerce businesses. Read the full article here.
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March 20th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Re-published from ISP-Planet.com
A Managed Hosting Contrarian – Let’s start telling it like it is! (Unlikely.)
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March 12th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Published in Online Media Daily
Managed hosting is loosely defined as a service where a customer’s Internet infrastructure is maintained and cared for by a Web hosting company. It can also be the ultimate smokescreen. Who knows what really goes on in the world of dark fiber and datacenters? The confusion surrounding the inner workings of this industry gives hosting companies the opportunity to dupe customers with fake promises. Unfortunately, this is common within the industry.
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February 15th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Re-Published from Pingdom
Content Delivery Networks help websites and services to deliver online content in an efficient manner. Since they act transparently behind the scenes, CDNs are often anonymous contributors to large online services.
To get a little more insight, we spoke to the CDN providers Voxel dot Net, Panther Express, EdgeCast Networks and IndyNET to get some information on how they work
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January 29th, 2008
posted by Zachary Smith
Voxel and its VoxCAST CDN have been added to Dan Rayburn’s StreamingMedia.com “CDN List”. Read the full post on Dan’s blog.
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