Posted on May 30th, 2011Future Hosting, a well known web hosting organization made a statement on Thursday that is has released a CDN service for its clients, which will allow them to share their website content across the globe.
A similar transaction took place between Web hosting company Liquid Web and Level 3 Communications to release content deliver network service having almost 35 international caching locations. However according to the press release, Future Hosting has not made public the exact name of vendors it is partnering with the launch of its CDN, choosing instead to refer to the transaction as partnership with “upstream providers”.
The press release also highlights the expanding of Future Hosting’s CDN ventures into different locations including North America, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and Australia with more places to be included soon.
“Our CDN opens a wide door of opportunity for our clients who need affordable, massively scalable, instant-on hosting infrastructure,” Stephen Kowalski, chief strategy officer for Future Hosting said in a statement. “Instead of paying for unused capacity, our CDN can be used as-needed, enabling our clients to capitalize on increases in Web traffic and be more efficient in the way they distribute data to website visitors. It especially translates into greater reliability and increased agility when transferring large media content.”
The clients already using services by Future Hosting can make use of the CDN service by adding it to their accounts after communicating the sales department of the company. The customers have the plus point of utilizing the pay as you go CDN bandwidth, priced at only $0.15 per GB, as stated on the website. The different packages start with $30 per month for 250 GB CDN bandwidth, 500 GB for $55 per month and the highest package providing 1500GB CDN bandwidth for $160 per month. The company, under the United States Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor framework, has itself self certified, to allow its customers the ease to function without limitations in the EU and US.