Take A Short Walk With Me Through StackPath History
In 2016, MaxCDN (the company) became a part of StackPath, and MaxCDN (the service) was the underpinnings...
May 5 2022
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HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a widely used streaming protocol that delivers media files in small chunks over HTTP so that they can be continuousl...
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As the name implies, an origin server is a source of website content. When a user requests an HTML file or any media file, the data originates fr...
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A content delivery network (CDN) stores a cached version of its content in many geographical locations called points of presence (PoPs). These Po...
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WebSocket is a protocol for creating a fast two-way channel between a web browser and a server that overcomes the limitations of HTTP, offering l...
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Transmuxing, also referred to as repackaging or packetizing, is a process in which audio and video files are repackaged into different delivery f...
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Transcoding is the process of converting an audio or video file from one encoding format to another in order to increase the number of compatible...
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Time to first byte (TTFB) is a metric for determining the responsiveness of a web server. It measures the amount of time between creating a conne...