VK Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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2021: Price Policy Update

Cloud platform Mail.ru Cloud Solutions on July 27, 2021 announced that it had updated the pricing policy for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) service. Video hosting, online cinemas, online stores, and other companies that are important for the speed of displaying content on web resources will be able to reduce CDN costs by 37%.

Previously, customers could choose one of the packages depending on the amount of prepaid traffic required, and exceeded were paid at a higher price. In July 2021, the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform introduced a single price for 1 GB of traffic for any business - 1.49 rubles. including VAT.

The growth of entertainment, education and information web resources is noticeable unarmed view. At the same time, competition and requirements for services are growing. Users come for knowledge or impressions and expect a high-level service resource. Technical overlays, whether slow downloads or incorrect display of content, often become the main reason customers leave for competitors. We see high demand for Content Delivery Network and aim to make the service more accessible to more companies. CDN will help them develop their own products and ensure a better user experience, "said Vadim Kozhin, marketing director for Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and Tarantool.

Customers of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions have already positively assessed the tariff policy of the service.

Our services are used in all regions of Russia and the speed of downloading content for us is an important indicator of quality. CDN helps us download content quickly regardless of the location of site visitors, and we are glad that the service continues to develop and improve, "said Vyacheslav Isaev, system administrator of Vostok-Service Group of Companies, one of the customers of the CDN service.

CDN allows businesses to speed users' downloads of content from web resources. Visitors to web pages are able to watch videos and listen to audio files, download games and software without delay thanks to a geographically distributed network infrastructure. Since 2020, the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions service has been using the Megafon network for this, consisting of 16 nodes and 450 caching servers, so customer content is available from anywhere in the world with a minimum delay of 20 ms.