Content Delivery Network (CDN) in Bynder

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) ensures fast delivery of files across the globe. For clients that support web shops with customers shopping around the world, this feature has proved to be crucial. By using CDN, we can ensure lightning-fast loading times from anywhere in the world. This means that no matter where your users or visitors are located geographically, they will never have to wait for a page or media item to load. When users somewhere in the world visit their brand portal or a website, and this website is fed by images from Bynder, then the images that are loaded on the site are directly stored in the nearest edge location.

CDN distributes your media and stores web versions on numerous servers around the world. The biggest advantage for you is that your visitors are automatically directed to the server of the nearest location. Technically speaking, this will lower the page latency and provide a lower load time. Check the use case below to see how CDN is put into practice.

The key principle behind the use of CDN is to solve the problem of latency. Latency is the delay between the moment you request an asset and the moment it appears on your screen. In the case of Bynder, latency would only happen if the people who need to access the assets are geographically distant from the hosting server.

Bynder leverages multiple hosting servers around the world: Frankfurt for Europe & Middle East, US East Coast & US West Coast for North & Central America and Tokyo for Asia Pacific. This structure allows Bynder to serve assets at a high speed around the globe, with close to no latency. However, in some cases, certain clients may require ultra-high performance levels for the delivery of their assets.

For example, if a client is located in California, Unites States the hosting server will be US West Coast. In order to maximize performance, the client can make use of CDN in order to make sure that the assets are served as quickly as possible.

You can use CDN for downloading assets from the Asset Library overview, the Asset detail page (AI/INDD files, single derivatives or all files, additional files) and the Collections view.

We can also customize Bynder so that you can use CDN with Bynder Transfer. In this way, when you share files with Bynder Express, the recipients can download the files using CDN when they click on the download link in the notification they receive.

Bynder supports various data hosting regions. We can also set up Bynder to upload your data to a specific region. See Data hosting regions supported by AWS and Bynder.

If users have specific permissions, they can download an original file through CDN if an asset is marked as public on the Asset detail page, but the link to the image is available for 15 minutes only for security reasons. Alternatively, you can retrieve a permanent link via the API if the asset is marked as public.

The same goes for thumbnails. All the thumbnails and web versions are public in Bynder and, as such, distributable through CDN. However, we can customize your portal so that thumbnails will become private and their link will become signed and expire after 15 minutes.