StackPath Quits CDN Business

StackPath, a company that helps websites load faster, has decided to stop providing its content delivery network (CDN) services. This means they won’t deliver website content from their servers worldwide. Instead, they’ll focus on other services like cloud computing and security.

As part of this change, Akamai, another company offering CDN services, has taken over around 100 of StackPath’s enterprise customer contracts. This means those customers will now use Akamai’s CDN services to deliver their website content.

CDNs are networks of servers that store and deliver website content, like images and videos, to users. They make websites load faster by storing content copies on servers closer to users, reducing the travel distance and speeding up website loading.

StackPath’s decision to leave the CDN business might be because there are many other companies offering CDN services, making it a competitive market. Additionally, CDN services need a lot of infrastructure and resources to operate, which might not have been a priority for StackPath.

Although StackPath won’t offer CDN services anymore, they still provide other services like load balancing, virtual machines, containers, serverless scripting, and security services. They have 73 Edge locations across 43 metro markets, so they’re still a significant player in the industry.