A Content Delivery Network is used to distribute data to end users of an Internet service. It is typically used for large scale distribution, and employs caching and numerous edge locations to speed up and reduce the bandwidth requirements of the process.
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What Amazon hosting solution is best for me? [closed]
My needs are simple:
I have created a number of tools at work which are implemented via bookmarklets, and now that I have a bunch I want to standardize method of creation. For example: Most of my ...
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Does offloading files to faster servers ruin site performance? [closed]
With a decent server and HTML on it, will offloading the CSS/JS/Images to another, faster server ruin the performance? I was thinking about sending, say
www.domain.net => main, decent server
...
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How secure is CloudFlare's basic SSL
CloudFlare's basic SSL package provides SSL encryption for you site, but only between your customer's browser, and the CloudFlare server where SSL is terminated. The connection between CloudFlare and ...
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HTTPS CNAME setup for CDN
Background
I need to host some files on our CDN (edgecast) which will be available over HTTPS. I would usually accomplish this by using the provided CDN url, i.e. https://wav22.233d.edgecast.com/.... ...
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Check whether CDN is working or not
Is there any way to find whether the static content is being served by CDN or not. Using curl, can i find whether the static file is being served by CDN or by the webserver.
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Nginx - Getting high request time for some static files
We recently moved to Nginx for serving static images for our website. The entry level server is easily able to handle the load with load avg mostly around 0 and low cpu usage.
But when we logged ...
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using a CDN on the same location as server
One of the purpose of a CDN is to distribute your static assets in an area closest to your user. So say my server is at location X and most of my users will be at Y. However the closest CDN server to ...
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How to return no answer with nginx?
I use nginx with Incapsula CDN and need to cleanly block all another requests in nginx's server {} context (for certain domain names, but not for all nginx's connections). Best practice in my opinion ...
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Why Not Serve an Entire Site from a CDN? [closed]
Normally when I hear about CDNs and how great they are, they're usually talking about serving a site's static content, like images, CSS, JS, and video.
But if CDNs are so great, why don't we run ...
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Wordpress feed does not update after APC and Cloudflare
I am running a Wordpress site on a Ubuntu server. I installed APC and setup Cloudflare. After that I started having a strange problem with the feed.
When I check the feed on the browser, I can see ...
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CDNs - is there a delay between file submission and availability?
I've never subscribed to a CDN before, and was hoping someone could share their experience. My question is: Is there a significant delay between a file being submitted via a CDN (via API), and it's ...
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static big files and a way to serve them securely (central authentication CDN)
I need to serve few static big files(about 4GB each) to several users, using 5 servers that are in different geographical regions.
The idea is that nobody else gets the content as there's ...
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gzip_http_version set to 1.0 but sends 1.1
I am trying to set Amazon CloudFront up with Nginx using W3 Total Cache and WordPress multisite. CloudFront only works with http 1.0 so, I read that you need to change the http version in gzip to 1.0. ...
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Bind and GeoDNS zone
I am wondering when it comes to BIND DNS, if i use the zone: example.com in the named.conf file, will it send all the sub-domains of that zone to that db file or will i have to set up each sub-domain ...
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CDN that pulls content from 3xx redirect target?
Storing data in Amazon's S3. Some of the data is for public viewing, and some is for private.
I'd rather have everything in S3 marked as private, and enforce viewing constraints through my web app. ...
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Suggest CDN with Byte-Range requests support for streaming [closed]
I'm trying to find high load solution for streaming server.
The idea came to me this morning.
What about CDN or cloud storage with byte-range support. Basically flash player require only partial ...
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How can I handle big traffic spikes on my dedicated server?
I have an E-Commerce site, which gains a sudden peak of very high traffic when I turn on different ads campaigns.
From this moment on, my current dedicated server (Hostgator, 4GB Memoray, 100mbps ...
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Global DNS loadbalancing [closed]
Is it that the DNS queries from a particular region goes to DNS servers located nearest? How DNS servers are made aware of the geographical location of requesting IP address?
Is that how the CDN ...
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Setting up CloudFront CDN on a cookieless root domain
I have recently set up an AWS S3 bucket for my site's static content, along w/ a CloudFront distribution for my CDN. I have this working using a sub-domain.
However, after running YSlow, I realized ...
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load website from 3 different server simultaneously [closed]
I have a website hosted on a VPS, But now i have a problem. My website, downed several times in last month and i change my service but still i have the same problems... I want to do something, i want, ...
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Caching video content on CDN
I'm currently running an application that delivers streaming video. All of the video content is hosted on our server, but we'd like to take some of the bandwidth load off of our server and speed up ...
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Web asset server concept - 3rd party software available? [closed]
We are serving dynamic (PHP) websites and their assets (JS/CSS/images/videos/binary downloads) via the same apache hosts. The static files are only being used as origins for CDN services used to ...
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load balancing and port speed/bandwidth
help me understand something about load balancing.
Let's pretend we have one server as frontend and three servers as backend.
All are hosted in the same datacenter using a local connectivity. ...
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Is subdomain (CNAME) slower than using original address?
I am no expert at this at all, so I am wandering is there a difference in speed, etc. when using some subdomain (CNAME record) over the original address?
For example, when using CDN like Amazon S3. ...
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CDN setup but not showing
I've setup CDN and it seems to be working fine when I view the my Joomla site at home with the code appearing but when I view the website at the office it doesn't appear to have changed at all.
Is ...
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Is it normal that Apache logs website visitors when it's using a CDN?
An Apache web server is serving content through CDN. The CDN cache every 3 hours. Is it normal that Apache logs all the visits? I think this means that the CDN is not working!
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SaaS that allows customers to use their own domain (with a CNAME) and serves using a CDN [closed]
I created a SaaS where customers can link to URLs of the form:
http://api.myservice.com/CUSTOMER_API_KEY/options/here
My customers can put these URLs directly in their HTML. I allow them to have ...
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Does a CDN still work even when my server is down?
I am a website owner planning to use Amazon's cloudfront S3. I have been reading all the stuffs about what a CDN can do but i still have an unanswered question.
Does a CDN still work even when my ...
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htaccess - How to allow access only to static files for specific domain
The idea is to serve js,css, img files using different domains so I created following domains:
css.mydomain.com
js.mydomain.com
img.mydomain.com
The main site URL is www.mydomain.com. When I ...
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Hosting solution for an international website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites
I'm new to international websites.
Since some days my website got international and I'm getting visitors ...
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Other services like CloudFlare's Always Online? [closed]
Since the website is about server problems i guess it is good to ask about this. I just want my viewers to be able to see a cached version of my website's main page and a couple other pages even if ...
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Using Redirect for an SSL CDN to have a Custom Domain
We're looking to move our website/app assets to a CDN. The problem is, our CDN doesn't offer custom domain names with SSL. In other words, for SSL they offer https://1234.cdn.hostingcompany.com but ...
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CloudFlare dashboards empty, or performance issues
I wanted to test CloudFlare performance so I set my image gallery domain on it and started testing. I have added PageRules for caching. And chose the Security: Essentially Off.
I checked NS check ...
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Testing image load times CDN vs Nginx server
We have been running a website that contains quite large image gallery. We started growing and we need a new place to keep our images. So I started looking and testing.
For testing purposes I created ...
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CDN options for 2Mb/sec for 500,000-750,000 viewers
My company does live-event streaming. Previously we handled 10,000-30,000 viewers of our stream. We just signed contracts to broadcast these events to approximately 500,000-750,000 viewers. Our stream ...
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How do CDN work if IP Addr are random? [closed]
From my understanding CDN are fast because they have big pipes, serve static content and are 'close' to you. But from my understanding DNS's give you a random IP address. If a CDN have 1 location ...
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CloudFront - first access
We are storing video files in Amazon S3-Buckets, and do the playout via CloudFront. Unfortunately, although CloudFront has an origin-pull mechanism, the files are only transferred from S3 to the edges ...
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Test site speed
I am test driving an Akmai CDN architecture and before committing to buy, I would like to gauge the real performance gain from the acceleration feature.
What would be the best MO for doing speed ...
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load balancing IIS7.5 server by geolocation
I have one web site and 3 servers in different location Asia, Europe, US. I am new in this things but what I want to do is implement ARR load balancing by geolocation (like CDN). Anyone know tutorial ...
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Using CDN to serve images folder for PHP/Apache website
I have a PHP5/Apache2/MySQL website.
Now in the folder structure under root I have an root\images folder that just has images. I also have a root\skin\images folder again has only images. If I wanted ...
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Reducing Excessive DNS Queries caused by a CDN
Heres the situation, I recently setup a few of my sites on a a CDN (specifically MediaTemple's ProCDN via Edgecast). Setup went perfectly normal but a couple of days later I notice this: (15K a day ...
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Can I resolve DNS based on the calling clients source IP?
Given a Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 DNS Server and a well known list of internal subnets, can I resolve DNS entries different based on the IP of the calling client?
Essentially, poor man's CDN where I ...
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Subdomains with some dynamic content and some static content on a CDN
Here's what I want to do. I know I can't do everything; I'm looking to see how close I can get or if anyone has a creative solution.
The goal is to make it so I can deploy HTML+CSS+JS to ...
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Is it possible to set up an additional private edge server on an existing commercial CDN?
The Akamai CDN network for example does not have edge servers located in my country. Is it at all possible to make use of such a commercially available CDN but to add my own private edge server(s) to ...
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RTMP alternative for Streaming on HTML5 video player?
I have a CDN with Level3 via VPS.net.
Anyway to use this CDN with html5 video players. The support people say it can only be used via RTMP, and RTMP seems to be flash only.
I want to give the ...
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Google Analytics setting cookies on static content despite being on entirely separate domain
I recently decided to comply with the YSlow recommendation that static content is hosted on a cookieless domain.
As I already use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my website—on which ...
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CloudFront - Users requests static files non-stop to make your bill high?
I had this weird wondering once.
If I am using CloudFront as my CDN, I pay per requests made on my static files.
So here comes the wondering. Can one keep requesting the same file in a non-stop ...
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CDN CNAMEs not resolving to customer origin
I have set up an Edgecast CDN to mirror all my static content. Because I use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my main site—using Google Analytics which sets cookies—I've stored the ...
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SSL Cert for custom domain endpoint on Azure CDN
We have some content hosted for our Azure application on the Azure CDN - we can access this nicely over https using the standard endpoint address, however for 'neatness' our customer would like to use ...
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Setting up centralized storage (e.g., NAS/SAN) for a SaaS application
I have a SaaS application running on 6+ servers in HPCloud which creates large amounts of data (GB/TB). Users talk to the application through a RESTful api which replies back with a link to our CDN ...
