Solutions

Media & Content Site Solutions

Improve site performance and reliability to keep visitors coming back

If you run a media or content site, your web presence does more than support your business. It is your business. If your site loads slowly, can't keep up with traffic spikes, or goes offline after a DoS or application-layer attack, you can lose both revenue and visitors to competitors' sites.

Rather than adding servers, buying bandwidth, or purchasing devices for specific tasks like load-balancing or SSL process offloading, you can meet these challenges more cost-effectively with an application delivery infrastructure. An Application Delivery Network makes the never-ending task of maintaining a reliable, content-rich site much more manageable.

Why do I need F5 for my media and content site plan?

Only F5 offers a unified architecture that handles the multiple challenges of maintaining a high-traffic content site. F5 helps you:

Benefits of using F5 for your media and content site solution include:

  • Increase the performance of servers and applications by up to one-third through compression and caching
  • Provide comprehensive safeguards against unauthorized access and malicious application attacks, including all common web attacks
  • Balance loads automatically across multiple servers for an optimum user experience
  • Implement automated failover to alternate data centers in case of disaster or link failure
  • Reduce the number of different solutions in the network, while improving network scalability and flexibility
Solution Guide for the media and content site industry

F5 solutions guide for the media and content site industries

How do I implement a solution for media and content sites?

Our Application Ready Network makes deploying F5 devices for media and content sites extremely easy. With our built-in, advanced optimization and protocol profiles and security policies, we take the guesswork out of optimally configuring F5 devices for media and content solutions. F5 deployment guides show you in step-by-step detail how to configure F5 devices for specific applications. For post-deployment tips and further optimizations, our developer community, DevCentral, provides forums, tips, codeshare and much more.

Resources

DevCentral Community

F5 Devcentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The Ask F5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for a media and content site solution?

F5's entire portfolio of products works together to ensure your media and content site is always secure, fast, and available.

Resources

F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP.

How to Buy

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