Deliver it faster, scale easily
Whether you need to deliver video, images, audio, or other file types, Cloud Files and the Akamai CDN help you keep your visitors happy.
Quick delivery
We integrated Cloud Files with the CDN market leader. By using 213 of Akamai’s edge locations, you can position your website’s images, video, audio, HTML files, JavaScript, and cascading style sheets closer to your end users. That means super-quick performance and less wait time for those videos, websites, or file downloads.
Reliable, scalable storage
With Cloud Files, it's incredibly easy to store as many videos, audio clips, or documents as you want. And because your files are replicated three times, your media delivery is not only faster, but more reliable.
Easy-to-use advanced features
Get SSL encryption for security, HTTP compression to save bandwidth, streaming for a better user experience, and edge purge capability to keep your media content fresh.
CDN analytics
Access third-party tools that turn your CDN access logs into simple graphics and charts to help you gain insights about your visitors or customers. Learn more at our Cloud Tools Marketplace
Simple pricing
Because our charges are straightforward, it’s easy to estimate your monthly bill. Be sure to check out all the items for which we don't charge extra.
Fanatical Support
Media hosting and streaming can be very complex. We're here to help 24x7x365 via phone, chat, or ticket.
Video Hosting
Website Acceleration
Streaming Audio
File Downloads
Video Hosting
Let us help ease your video workflow. Rackspace Cloud Files powered by the Akamai CDN can make publishing and streaming your videos virtually painless. We can help you:
Store
Upload your video to Cloud Files—you can keep the file private until you’re ready to publish it on the CDN. You can even upload huge files like HD movies quickly using multiple file segment uploads and a manifest file that maps those segments together. Your visitors view a single video file, delivered fast.
Encode
Easily work with the leaders in cloud-based video encoding: Encoding.com and Zencoder. They can even encode videos right from Cloud Files!
Deliver
Serve your videos fast using 213 Akamai edge locations. Positioning your video closer to your user means it loads fast.
Stream
HTTP streaming improves the user experience by letting visitors start the video more quickly and giving them more flexibility in navigating. Stream leading media formats: Cloud Files works with plugins for JW Player, FlowPlayer, and OSMF. You can also stream natively on iOS devices.
Archive
Keep video backups stored on Cloud Files. Or store multiple versions of your videos to recover from unintended overwrites and deletions.
“Before, we shipped videos on hard drives to third-party vendors for transcoding. Rackspace lets us add servers to our infrastructure on a temporary basis, so we can transcode in-house.”
Website Acceleration
A faster website or application means happy customers. You get tons of advantages when pages load quickly: higher customer loyalty, better search rankings, higher conversion rates, and increased revenues. By contrast, every second of delay can decrease sales conversions by 7%.
Websites and apps are growing more complex by the day, using more images, JavaScript, or cascading style sheets… so reducing page load time is a real challenge. And if you manage an ecommerce site, advertising site, or social media app, these challenges can be especially painful.
Rackspace Cloud Files can help by offering:
Integration with the Akamai CDN
Using Akamai’s 213 edge locations lets you position your images, JavaScript, or CSS closer to your users, for faster delivery of your website's static content.
Easy scalability
It’s super-simple to store as much static content in Cloud Files as you want. And with triple-replication, your data exists on multiple disks across separate nodes, to help it stay available.
Even faster performance for static sites
If you want to serve a static website fast, like a small company site, you can host it entirely from Cloud Files and the Akamai CDN, with no need for servers.
“Prior to using Rackspace, the page load times on our company’s website were unacceptable. After we switched to Cloud Files and the Akamai CDN, our website pages now load incredibly fast.”
Michael Borohovski
President & CTO, Tinfoil Security
President & CTO, Tinfoil Security
Streaming Audio
The popularity of Internet radio has exploded, doubling every year since 2001. Listeners now expect to access the audio they want, with no wait. It’s the ultimate goal of any audio—related website or app—but it’s tougher to realize when you factor in:
File formats and codecs
Listeners expect high sound quality, but uncompressed and lossless formats take up more space and can take longer to serve.
Device compatibility
You have to be certain your files will work on smartphones, tablets, laptops, or desktops that run on Windows®, Linux, and MacOS®.
Rackspace Cloud Files can help by offering:
Streaming for MP3 audio
Cloud Files supports MP3 encoded audio within the FLV, MP4 and F4F/F4M containers and is compatible with plugins for Flash players like JW Player and Flowplayer.
Integration with the Akamai CDN
Using Akamai’s 213 edge locations lets you position your audio clips closer to your users, for faster delivery.
Easy scalability
It’s super-simple to store as much audio content as you want. And with triple-replication, you can rest easy knowing your audio file or song exists on multiple disks across separate nodes.
“Cloud Files works great. It’s really simple, and it’s cheap. We’re streaming 1.5-2TB a month—a huge amount of data. With Cloud Files, we don’t have to worry about it, it just works.”
File Downloads
You need to get your files—software downloads, software updates, published documents, or subscription-based content—in the hands of users. Fast. And when you have hundreds of users all over the world, all trying to download your files at the same time, how you host your files really matters.
File downloads create a lot of network traffic—offload that traffic to Rackspace and the Akamai CDN. Rackspace Cloud Files can help you:
Deliver files quickly
Serve your files fast using 213 Akamai edge locations. Positioning your files closer to your users decreases download times and improves your users’ experience.
Limit access to files
The temporary URL feature allows your customers to download a file for a limited time from your Cloud Files account or website. If desired, this feature also allows your audience to upload objects into your Cloud Files account as well.
Serve your files reliably
Leveraging Cloud Files powered by the Akamai CDN, you can serve your files reliably without having to build and maintain an expensive infrastructure to handle high traffic.
Scale easily
It’s super-simple to store as many files as you want on Cloud Files—no matter how small or large. And with triple-replication, you can rest easy knowing your file exists on multiple disks across separate nodes.
Securely encrypt your files
SSL delivery, or HTTPS, encrypts your files in transit as it goes through the CDN. Your content remains encrypted all the way from the origin servers out to the browser.
“Rackspace Cloud Files is our single point of distribution for providing content and applications to 1,850+ students and teachers. Cloud Files is very easy to use.”