Panther Express Delivers the
Pictures that Make the Sales at
PriceMinister.com, top French eCommerce Site
Origin Shielding
Improves Site Responsiveness By Slashing
Hits to Content Providers Database
New York, NY (July
1, 2008)
Panther Express,
(www.pantherexpress.net)
a leading global provider of
high-performance content delivery services,
today announced they have been selected as
the content delivery network (CDN) for
PriceMinister.com
(http://www.priceminister.com),
one of Europe's leading e-commerce sites.
Based in France, and serving customers
throughout the world, PriceMinister.com is a
global online marketplace for connecting
buyers and sellers. PriceMinister.com is the
second most popular e-commerce site in
France and in the top 15 of all French
websites overall.
With over 8 million members,
PriceMinister.com is an online marketplace
for books, CDs, DVDs and games, electronic
goods, childcare, fashion, home and garden,
automobiles and many other products. Every
month, over 30 million people visit the site
to buy and sell. Currently there are over
120 million products listed on the site,
each with their own graphics and images.
Panther delivers those images and graphics.
First launched in 2001, PriceMinister.com
has worked with some of the world's biggest
and most well known content delivery
networks. In January 2008, they decided to
move to Panther Express to smoothly and
reliably deliver the site's graphic elements
and millions of product images. They also
needed a CDN that could scale and provide
extremely reliable, fast delivery through
Europe as well as globally.
"By using the Panther Express and its unique
Origin Shielding
service, we
get many fewer requests on our origin
servers thereby greatly reducing the load on
our database and improving overall site
speed and responsiveness," said Justin
Ziegler, co-founder and CTO of
PriceMinister.com. "The Panther interface
is very simple and easy for our team to use
and manage. In addition, we are very
impressed by the
Panther support team?s
responsiveness and professionalism.
Whenever we have a question or an issue,
they get answers to us quickly."
"Today, e-commerce is a global phenomenon.
It doesn't matter where you are based, in
the United States, in France, or on an
island somewhere, you must be sure your
content delivery network provides consistent
high quality and reliability worldwide,"
said Gad Stanislas, Vice President -
International of Panther. "PriceMinister.com
recognizes that a CDN has to deliver more
than just high performance and competitive
pricing - they need to provide worldwide
connectivity, an easy to use management
interface as well as a network architecture
that minimizes the requests on the content
provider's origin servers."
Panther Express Shielding Service
When users make a request to a cache
that does not have the object, the cache
makes an HTTP request back to the origin web
server. By using the Shielding Service, this
request is instead first directed to the
Shield POP, rather than going directly to
the origin web server. Reducing the load on
origin server eliminates the need for
capital investment for larger origin
servers. Panther Express Shielding can also
improve performance because the Shield
caches have a proportionately large amount
of provisioned bandwidth and are usually
closer to POPs than the origin. Shielding
also provides redundancy as objects are
stored in the cache and will be delivered,
even if the origin is down
About PriceMinister
PriceMinister.com (http://www.priceminister.com)
is an online marketplace for buyers and
sellers that also acts as trusted third
party. PriceMinister.com guarantees that
the seller is paid and, second, that the
buyer is satisfied. PriceMinister.com
introduced its "secured direct sales from
sellers to buyers" platform in 2001 in
France, and in 2006 in Spain. In five years
PriceMinister.com expanded to support the
sales of books, CDs, DVDs and games,
electronic goods, childcare, fashion, home
and garden, automobiles and many other
products.
About 30 million people visit the site each
month, 120 million products are for sale,
and PriceMinister.com now has 8 million
members. Since its launch, the site has
enjoyed a three-digit growth rate and is
targeting the top position in e-commerce in
France. PriceMinister.com was founded in
August 2000 by Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet,
Pierre Krings, Justin Ziegler and Olivier
Mathiot. Investors include 3i, Quilvest and
private individuals.
About Panther Express
Panther Express Corp. is the industry's
best value CDN solution - a high-performance
content delivery network (CDN) with an
innovative low-cost infrastructure. Founded
in 2005 by former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan
and DoubleClick Co-founder and former CTO
Dwight Merriman, Panther Express ensures
rapid, reliable and scalable performance to
gaming, video, e-commerce, webhosting, news,
blogs and Web 2.0 Internet sites worldwide.
Panther Express is privately held and based
in New York. Panther Express has over ten
years of best practices and two years of
operational excellence in content delivery
with over 325 customers using our solutions
every day.
www.pantherexpress.net
For more information contact Panther Express
at 40 West 20th Street, New York,
New York 10011
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