We live in an era of “skimming” and in a time where information is far from scarce, keeping the visitors enticed enough to stay on a website for more than a few seconds is hard. It can be a struggle to convince visitors that their time on your site will be worthwhile.

jHost recently published web hosting performance testing data comparing (as scientifically as we could) jHost to the big guys, like 1&1, HostGator, and GoDaddy.  Today, Cometrics picked up the story and wrote an article re-testing our data.  How’d we do? 

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the globe. Their real value comes when you think about latency–or the time it takes for your information to be delivered hundreds or thousands of miles away from your actual web server.