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origin server

A Web server that contains the original Web page. The term is used to identify the Web server from the cache server. Since there is no physical difference between a digital original and a digital copy, the term implies that the origin server is the one that is maintained and updated by the enterprise. See Web cache.
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Cache-misses can occur for live content in latency-minimised CDNs because new segments of content may not have been written to the origin server before the client requests them.
Combined with Cloudflare's Railgun, Warp, and Argo products, the Neumob code means that data flowing to and from mobile applications will be optimized, secured, routed and accelerated across Cloudflare's network end-to-end: from handset to origin server and back.
Figure 1 shows our distributed Web system using DNS which consists of management server, authoritative name server, origin server and cache servers on Cloud.
Cloud front is the decision maker to decide the nearest edge location available and check the cache .If files are not available in edge cache, it initiates the connection with origin server, make edge copy and serve to the end user.
Harmonic`s NMX video network management solution centrally controls the ProMedia Package and Origin server, enhancing scalability while simplifying deployment and management of TDC`s multiscreen services.
In addition, the CacheFlow appliance validates content freshness before serving it to the subscriber, maintaining consistency with the origin server.
* What origin server infrastructure or CDNs does the solution work with?
An origin server can examine the User-agent request header and generate special HTML to take advantage of a browser feature.
SGI designed its modular, high-performance SGI Origin server family to enable breakthrough innovations in industries such as manufacturing, government, media, energy and sciences.
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