How to Choose a Gaming CDN Service Provider

Nowadays, the gaming industry is growing at a high speed and with the popularity of online gaming, gamers are demanding more and more from game manufacturers. Game developers must ensure game speed and security. And the game CDN meets the conditions just right.

What is a gaming CDN?

CDN (Content Delivery Network), is a content loading technology deployed globally, the core of which is to distribute content to the nearest server node to the user, so that the user can quickly access the resources, reduce data transmission time, improve access speed and user experience.

The game CDN also distributes and caches game resources, such as game clients, update packs, DLCs, etc., on the servers closest to the player through globally deployed edge node servers, so that the game content can be accessed at the fastest possible speed, no matter where the player is.

Core Essentials of Gaming CDNs

• Reduced latency

Game latency is the Achilles' heel of games, especially in MMO and competitive games, high latency will lead to players' operation lagging and dropping off the line, if you access StoneCDN, you can ensure that gamers get the best gaming experience through geographically close transmission.

• Improved stability

Game CDN not only accelerates game content, but also reduces service pressure through load balancing technology to avoid overloading of a single server. For popular and large games, as well as gaming events, the launch of the game traffic surges, and the stable operation of the game can be guaranteed through StoneCDN. 

• Save on bandwidth costs

For game developers and publishers, bandwidth cost is an expense that cannot be ignored. By using CDN, a large number of data transmission tasks can be decentralized to individual node servers, thus reducing the bandwidth pressure on the main server and lowering the overall operating costs.

• Protection against DDOS attacks

Games have important assets, easy to cause frequent attacks by hackers, attackers through DDOS to force the game to crash, so as to blackmail the game developers, and even, peers will also launch DDOS malicious attacks, unfair competition, and StoneCDN protection using distributed DDOS defense system, ignoring any DDOS attacks, and even direct ignorance of CC attacks.

• anti-fraud

Game speculators will tamper with game data by launching man-in-the-middle attacks on the game, developing plug-ins and other means to satisfy their purpose of cheating and profiting. StoneCDN SDK has built-in anti-fraud security and AI intelligence to identify cheating behavior and intervene in a timely manner.

Multi-scene Adaptation

•  Client-side distribution

Some of the large game client packets up to dozens of G, if the user can not download the data nearby, it will seriously affect the user experience, if access to the CDN can be downloaded through the nearby, can help game developers to get more new users.

• Game patches and updates

Updates and patches are a regular part of the game's behavior, and using a CDN to accelerate content downloads can improve gamer retention.

• Communications Acceleration

Multiplayer instant game, players and players need to maintain real-time communication, only access to the CDN, through the intelligent line and node optimization, in order to protect the immediacy of communication 

How to choose the right CDN for your game?

• Number of nodes

An excellent game CDN manufacturers, should have nodes around the world data centers, able to customer target user areas to achieve full coverage. StoneCDN has 220 + data centers around the world, and has a leading edge in Asia, its data center scale in Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam more than peers.

• powerful performance

The stable performance of the game CDN is crucial. When choosing a CDN manufacturer, you need to test its latency, broadband, and load capacity to confirm that it meets your requirements.

• safety

Manufacturers who are in a position to do so should choose to conduct anti-stress tests on CDN service providers, as well as anti-fraud, man-in-the-middle attacks and other security tests. To ensure that the CDN protection provided meets their security requirements.

• quality-price ratio

CDN manufacturers are uneven, there are many CDN labeling agents, the market price is also very confusing, so it is wise to choose a clear price and have a well-known CDN manufacturers, StoneCDN has helped you compare peers, we are not the cheapest price, but the cost-effective must be the highest.

• 24/7 Technical Support

As a global development enterprise, 24/7 multi-language instant support is very important, such as for China, Japan, Europe and the United States, can provide the corresponding localization support will make your business run more stable, StoneCDN engineers are all from the language of the country they belong to, the business logic and market is very familiar with, can provide the best localization after-sales service.