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Comparison of Key Metrics: Hong Kong CDN5 vs. Other Providers – No ICP Filing Required for Mainland China, 99.99% Uptime Guarantee, and Enterprise-Grade Security Solutions with Real Case Data
As a network security engineer in the field of CDN security for many years, I have the honor to join the CDN5, today I would like to talk about the Hong Kong CDN market from an insider's point of view, and the depth of our CDN5 services, this article is not a simple propaganda piece, but based on actual data and experience in technology sharing, I hope to be looking for Hong Kong filing-free CDN companies to provide a valuable reference! This article is not a simple propaganda piece, but a technical sharing based on actual data and experience, hoping to provide valuable reference for enterprises looking for Hong Kong file-free CDN.
Hong Kong CDN Market Analysis
Hong Kong based on Asia's best geographic location and an important global trade center, the Internet infrastructure is very perfect, as the Asia-Pacific region's network hub, the number of fibers and latency are very low, the important thing is that the Hong Kong Internet policy is lax, there is no wall and filing restrictions, so many Internet companies operating in the Asia-Pacific region preferred acceleration base.
According to my past three years to deal with customer cases
Hong Kong CDN market mainly exists in the following pain points:
1. Security threats: DDOS attacks are getting bigger and bigger, and the traditional defense capability is far from enough.
2. Cost escalation: such as Ali cloud, google cloud by volume billing, unexpected situations, SMEs can not afford it
A few misunderstandings when choosing CDN:
1. Excessive attention to price: blindly choose low-priced services, ignoring the performance and security guarantees, which is obviously wrong, many CDN merchants low price traps, waste of time and waste of money.
2. Neglect localization support: when encountering problems, time difference and language barriers lead to response delays, such as the use of other CDNs such as cloudflare
3. Configuration duplication: different content types (static files, video streams, APIs, etc.) require different optimization strategies, but many enterprises use the same set of configurations
These market conditions and user pain points are exactly the problems that CDN5 was designed to solve.
CDN5 Core Technical Architecture Analysis
As a member of the CDN5 core development team, I am honored to share our technical architecture design concepts and implementation details.CDN5 is not an overnight product, but is the result of 10 years of research and development and three major architectural iterations by our team.
Global Node Layout Strategy
CDN5 has 2,370 edge nodes around the world, including 8 high-specification nodes in Hong Kong. Our node layout follows the “Golden Triangle” principle:
Backbone network directly connected nodes: Located in Hong Kong HKIX, Equinix and other core exchanges, such as our Cyberport nodes directly access HKIX, measured latency to the local ISP <2ms.
Cross-border optimized nodes: Shenzhen Qianhai and Guangzhou Nansha nodes specially optimized for mainland China connectivity are connected through dedicated channels, maintaining a stable latency of <30ms even during peak periods such as Chinese New Year.
Edge Coverage Nodes: Residential network access points distributed in various districts of Hong Kong, solving the “last-mile” problem.
Intelligent Routing System
CDN5 adopts PathFinder with AI model, which can realize the following functions:
Real-time network awareness: on average, the network status is updated once every 5 seconds, including latency ms, packet loss rate, jitter, broadband utilization, and if a failure occurs, the route is automatically switched within 30 seconds.
Multi-dimensional decision-making: AI model will judge by itself based on user types, packages, and characteristics of network attacks, such as video streaming, which will prioritize high broadband paths, and financial APIs, which will prioritize low latency
Predictive scheduling: Based on historical data model analysis, AI will predict traffic peaks 20 minutes in advance and intelligently allocate them, for example, if you are a movie website with a lot of people at night, based on your previous historical data, AI will cut into low-frequency resources during the daytime hours, and automatically cut into high-frequency resources at night.
Security Protection System
Distributed Cleaning Center: We have 3 cleaning centers locally in Hong Kong, with a total capacity of 2TBPS. In addition, we use dynamic fingerprinting, which is basically oblivious to CC, with false positives less than 0.01%. For example, last year, we intercepted an attack against Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), with a capacity of 5.4 Tbps, and used both Hong Kong nodes and U.S. nodes to clean it, so as to ensure that users' services are not affected.
WAF Enhancement: Optimized for common web attack features in the Asia-Pacific region, such as SQL injection detection with support for Chinese semantic analysis.
Zero Trust Edge: The U.S. edge nodes are all minimal new principles, even if a single node is invaded, it will not be affected in any way, because we found in a test 3 years ago, the traditional CDN architecture, there is a risk of lateral movement, so we re-constructed the rules of the node, in addition to each of our nodes are used in the high-defense IP, non-traditional CDN providers can afford to do!
Next, I will share the performance of CDN5 in a real environment in Hong Kong. .
CDN5 real test performance
Theoretical architecture again perfect, say their own technology how awesome, all need actual data verification to be reliable, I organized CDN5 in the past six months of the detailed performance indicators, and compared with the mainstream market solutions.
Test environment and methodology
To ensure the fairness of the test, we:
Selected multiple test points : Including representative areas in Hong Kong Island (Central), Kowloon (Mongkok), New Territories (Shatin) and outlying islands (Lantau Island).
Multi-period sampling : Covering different periods such as weekdays/weekends, peaks/troughs, etc., with continuous monitoring for 30 days.
Comparison: Three internationally recognized CDN service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront) and two Asian regional service providers were selected as reference.
Test content : Static web pages (1MB), dynamic APIs (100KB), video streaming (4Mbps) and large file downloads (100MB).
All tests were conducted using the same hardware devices (Samsung Galaxy S22, iPhone 13, MacBook Pro M1) and network environments (CSL, PCCW, HKT and other major ISPs).
Hong Kong local performance side-by-side comparison table
| norm | CDN5 | Akamai | Cloudflare | AWS | 亚洲A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average delay(ms) | 8.2 | 11.7 | 9.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 |
| first byte time(ms) | 142 | 175 | 163 | 201 | 188 |
| 1MB page load(s) | 1.12 | 1.34 | 1.28 | 1.47 | 1.39 |
| Video start time(s) | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| download speed(Mbps) | 89.7 | 78.3 | 82.1 | 72.5 | 75.8 |
Hong Kong → Mainland China Performance side-by-side comparison table
| norm | CDN5 | Akamai | Cloudflare | AWS | 亚洲A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guangzhou Delay(ms) | 28 | 45 | 52 | 67 | 39 |
| Shanghai Delay(ms) | 39 | 58 | 63 | 82 | 51 |
| Beijing delay(ms) | 48 | 72 | 81 | 98 | 63 |
| packet loss(%) | 0.12 | 0.35 | 0.41 | 0.57 | 0.28 |
| Cross-border bandwidth(Mbps) | 327 | 285 | 263 | 241 | 298 |
Stability test under extreme scenarios
Node Availability: CDN5 maintains 99.992%, compared to the industry average of 99.87
Latency fluctuation: average increase of 11ms, much lower than the industry average of 38ms
Failover time: the longest link outage recovery time is 1.7 seconds This is thanks to our multi-path backup and intelligent failover system.
At that time, the Hong Kong Airport website was using CDN5 services, and it still maintained stable operation despite a 300% surge in visits during the typhoon.
Protection Measurement
We commissioned a third-party network security company to conduct simulated attacks and penetration tests, and the data are as follows
The above data shows that CDN5 not only leads in performance, but also meets the enterprise-level requirements in security. Below we analyze the performance of CDN5 in different scenarios:
Application Practices in Different Industries
Financial industry:
The client comes from a bank mobile APP in Hong Kong, which requires API response time <100ms, financial level security, and monthly payday is the peak transaction period. CDN5 successfully reduced the client's API response time from 218ms to 70ms through exclusive optimization of financial acceleration, deployment of signature authentication and dynamic resource preload on edge nodes, and increased the success rate of the transaction peak from 99.5% to 99.98%, and successfully blocked 6 DDOS attacks of over 500G. The success rate during the peak transaction period increased from 99.5% to 99.98%, and six DDOS attacks of more than 500G were successfully intercepted, which guaranteed the safety of the customer's products and reduced the latency.
E-commerce industry:
The client is a well-known e-commerce platform with a picture-intensive website, an average page size of 4.7MB, frequent promotions, and 35% of users in mainland China. CDN5 reduces the page load time from 3.4s to 1.4s by accessing CN2's exclusive network nodes, adopting elastic bandwidth billing and intelligent picture optimization, and reduces the cost of bandwidth by 37% to guarantee the network loading speed during the promotional period. speed, helping to improve the continental conversion rate.
Gaming Industry:
The customer is a comprehensive game company, the main business in mainland China and Southeast Asian countries, its existing CDN service providers can not meet their requirements, through a number of channels to compare the evaluation, and finally chose CDN5, the customer's web site and mobile terminal are accessed by CDN5 Game Shield, through the deployment of the game acceleration protocols and any cast ip access by CN5 for its latency from 68ms down to 40ms. In a month successfully resisted 18 times more than 600G DDOS mixed attacks, this case, we optimized the UDP packet processing process, so that the efficiency of small packet transmission increased by 40%.
Unique Advantages of CDN5
Based on the above measured data and actual customer cases, I think CDN5 has the following advantages in the Hong Kong CDN market:
1. Deep localization optimization: CDN5 local nodes cover all major ISPs, Hong Kong to mainland China using CN2 and BGP intelligent lines, in line with the Hong Kong PDPO data privacy regulations, using intelligent elastic architecture, traffic prediction accuracy of more than 98%, with elastic scalability and enterprise-level security.
2. Asia-Pacific Intelligence Database: We have been deeply engaged in the Asia-Pacific region for many years, and have the world's highest top-level security intelligence database, which can detect threat intelligence in milliseconds by modeling all features through AI learning, and can provide fine-grained access control. We are the designated service provider for many public security in Hong Kong SAR, and we provide 7×24-hour Hong Kong local engineer services with an average downtime response time of <15 minutes.
3. Cost transparency: CDN5 global unified pricing and billing, five invisible costs, burst traffic protection mechanism, availability commitment of 99.999%, and to provide compensation terms, so do not be confused by some CDN manufacturers of “unlimited traffic” and other marketing terms, should be based on the actual business model to choose the most suitable program.
As an engineer of CDN5, I would like to share some more technical development plans for CDN5 goals, mainly based on AI-driven dynamic optimization, such as real-time dynamic video bit rate adjustment, personalized content prefetching, deep prediction of attack behavior and deepening of edge computing, and at the same time, based on the AI latency inference and the construction of new network protocols as well as the convergence of satellite links, the current AI prefetching system has been fully online and has become the industry's first prefetch system.Become the industry's first AI-optimized CDN manufacturer.
Why choose CDN5?
The original intention of writing this article is to present CDN5's technical strength and market value objectively from an engineer's perspective. Through the previous detailed analysis, I think CDN5's advantages in the Hong Kong CDN market can be summarized into three points:
The first is the depth of technology: we are not a simple integration of resources, but the special network environment has carried out a lot of original research and development, from protocol optimization to security protection have unique innovations.
The second is local focus: it is difficult for international vendors to invest special resources for the Asia-Pacific market, while our main market is the Asia-Pacific region, and we have an absolute advantage in the Asia-Pacific region, whether it is the nodes, technology, experience, and after-sales support, all of which kill Cloudflare and Akamai.
The third is real-world verification: all the data quoted in the article comes from real production environments, and CDN5 has proven itself to be able to support the most demanding business scenarios.
If you are looking for a high-performance, high-defense CDN solution in Hong Kong, I invite you to experience CDN5 services. As a technical team, we prefer to speak with actual performance rather than empty marketing promises. Welcome to apply for a free trial, and our team of engineers will provide you with professional technical advice and deployment support.
Author: CDN5 Senior Network Security Engineer @Betty R Petty
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