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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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Host server from home with a cloud cdn provider or go with cloud server? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites
I have searched for my answer here but didn't find the right one for my needs. I would appreciate your ...
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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 ...
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Media Being Hosted In SVN For Web Application
I have a client who decided to use SVN to host the media files and pulled by a web application for viewing. What are the consequences of this, and wouldn't a better option be to use a NAS or CDN?
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Use different dns servers for CDNs
Back when google first released their 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 dns servers I did some profiling, and they are way faster for our location. A more recent test confirms this is still the case. However, after ...
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How should I handle static assets when deploying code to different webservers?
Say I have two production webservers (web1 and web2) and a static asset origin server (origin1), and I want to deploy new code that references new css/js/images.
After updating web1 and putting it ...
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What do you do when your site scales so much that uploaded_media can't fit on one machine?
What do you do when your site scales so much that your uploaded_media (in Django, where all uploaded media files from users is stored) can't fit on one machine?
My personal case, I'm using Django and ...
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Can/Should I point the custom origin of a CDN (CloudFront) to a AName for a Load Balancer (ELB)?
I don't want to point my CloudFront CDN to a specific EC2 instance, I'd like to point it to the ELB that they are behind.
Is this possible? Any gotchas? I tried it and I am getting a 404 from ELB
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Cloudflare performance, ddos
I have been using cloudflare CDN on my website (wordpress) for about 4 months, mostly because I was hoping the CDN would make things faster, and make the load on my cheap server somewhat smaller, ...
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Using amazon S3 as storage for attachments in a web-mail system
I am looking to use S3 as data storage service for a mail system.
The idea is to allow users to upload files that serve as attachments to their emails, which are then available to download from the ...
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Setting up self hosted CDN
Am building a site that makes a lot of requests for javascript and css files, and I've being reading about CDNs. I have a spare domain name and hosting space which I would like to use host these ...
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NGiNX + PHP5-fpm + CDN Tools (plugin)
I am trying to activate the CDN tools plugin and I keep getting the following error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in ...
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Can a CDN (specifically CloudFront) stampede its origin server after a miss?
Similar to how a memcache server can stampede a db after a missed hit.
Should I ever expect high traffic from my CDN(s)?
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Preload/Prime Amazon Cloud Front CDN before move.
I am changing CDNs and I would like to preload some content to AWS Cloud Front so that my origin server is not hammered during that transition. Any tips?
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Running my own CDN alongside Amazons S3 for nearby visitors
I am running a blog on shared webhosting. The website itself is on the hosting, but my files right now are on Amazons S3 CDN. I have made a bucket lockated in the US, and I have setup a virtual host ...
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HTTP Cacheing To Lessen Cluster Nodes?
I have been looking into using http caching for one of my projects on heroku. The site is serving primarily dynamicish (meaning that the actual contents doesn't change that often) iFrame's and ...
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Akamai / CDN - How much do CDNs like akamai cost? [closed]
I haven't been able to find any numbers related to cost via google or price sheets. How much do these services realistically cost (akamai, limelight, any of them)? Are there any good CDN ...
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How do I configure an SSL only site, in a way that doesn't affect browser connection limits
The Yahoo Developer Best Practices recommend using multiple hosts (host1.company.com, host2.company.com, etc..) as a way of overcoming a webbrowsers built in limitation of only issuing two concurrent ...
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Cloudflare hurting performance
I recently set up cloudflare on a new site I'm about to launch. I ran some benchmarks with it on and with it off and the output is extremely troubling. Does this make sense to anyone?
Before when ...
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Amazon S3 preprocess request
Is there any way to preprocess Amazon S3 request by executing some logic in some programming logic (e. g. if I need to restrict access to resources by some dynamic condition)?
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Does creating a new CNAME replace the old?
I have a CNAME record:
cdn.example.com. IN CNAME examp.vo.llnwd.net
which was registered through Limelight. Do I need to go back to Limelight release this record? Or if I just generate a new ...
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How to meter rackspace+Akamai usage
On our system(which is based on Rackspace cloud and uses integrated Akamai CDN) we want to cap usage of our cloud files and CDN and bill users accordingly.
If I look at API set exposed by Rackspace ...
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Serving index.html and other files via ngnix and CDN (Rackspace Cloud Files)
I would like to serve the index.html file for my domain via a cdn (and a few other static pages).
Would it be possible to do this with an Amazon EC2 Instance and Rackspace Cloud Files?
I found ...
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CDN for caching REST api
I am doing some research on CDN providers, however I have a hard time finding out which ones are available, what exactly they offer, and if they are appropriate for my purpose. Hopefully you guys can ...
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Amazon S3 as source and nginx servers on the edges
For some parts of our infra we are using Amazon S3 as the source and cloudfront as the distribution cdn. However there are certain parts of the world where we would prefer to use a local server as ...
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Are there CDN for streaming video content with custom configuration of media servers
My company currently is using CloudFront as Content Distribution Network.
But recently we need some additional configuration to the media server they are using for streaming our video content. But... ...
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Monitoring CDN from different geographical locations
Recently we had a problem with our CDN service: one of edge locations cached incomplete version of javascript file and our customers from United Arab Emirates (and maybe some other nearby countries) ...
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How to upload files from Amazon EC2 server to S3 bucket?
What is the default way to upload files from a EC2 web server to a S3 bucket for content delivery?
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ISP Point of Presence versus ISP data center and what effect it has on CDN server deployment
I would like to clarify my understanding of the difference between an ISP Point of Presence and an ISP data center. Perhaps more importantly, I'm trying to understand at what kind of granularity each ...
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Rackspace Cloud Files - limiting possible connections
We have a plan to create a new section to our website - one that will feature HTML5 video. During the initial tests we've done, HD video encoded with Zencoder and stored on Rackspace Cloud Files and ...
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Should a well-optimized ad server be able to run fine on a single dedicated server?
This is a completely hypothetical question that myself and a colleague have been wondering/debating about, and we thought some of the knowledgeable people at SF could shed some light.
Say, for ...
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CloudFront or other CDN with RTSP streaming?
So I've been bouncing between CDN's trying to optimize our serving solution. We're serving short video clips into our code that display either an html5 video element (MP4 or OGG) or a flash swf (FLV) ...
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1 user, 1 day, millions of requests for the same file
Help!
Here's the scenario:
I'm hosting and serving display ads. These consist of some media creatives and some javascript files to assemble and display the ad. The files are hosted on a CDN.
We did ...
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How can I verify that an RTMP stream URL is working?
I have been put in charge of setting up a CDN account for streaming video but am not actually running the site that will host the content. How can I test that a published RTMP URL is working? Do I ...
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How do CDNs that don't require url rewriting work?
Will I have to change some DNS settings? If so, what would I have to change? Will they work automatically as long as I set the correct cache-control headers?
EDIT: I'm completely new to CDNs and ...
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Are there any CDNs that will automatically edge cache anything you set cache-control headers for?
I'm new to CDNs. I have dynamically generated pages that have a 30 minute expiry on each URL, and I want these to be edge cached. Are there any CDNs that can just act as a proxy cache and when a user ...
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Google Page Speed message: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6/jquery.min.js (1 hour)
Google Page Speed is telling me to leverage browser caching for only this object:
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6/jquery.min.js (1 hour)
As this is being delivered from an external ...
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CDN architecture - best practises and designs
I am a developer for a website which is heavily reliant on static content such a pictures, videos etc. Our current setup is very simple, we basically have one server acting as our cdn which in turn ...
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Server performance for high traffic? [closed]
I need to make sure my website is properly optimized (the server, the PHP code, and the MySQL queries) for high traffic. I am getting ready to market my website soon, and expecting a ton of traffic, ...
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How to set up a private CDN using nginx?
Here is the problem: I have a Linux server in Europe serving a busy Drupal site using nginx+php-fpm, I have another Linux server in the US (where a big portion of my visitors are coming from). The ...
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Should AWS CloudFront *increase* load time for infrequently accessed files?
I am new to CDNs and experimenting with CloudFront. I have set everything up and all appears to be working fine. I can create a static image on a page and access it though my CloudFront distribution. ...
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What are the cheap CDN for Origin Pull? [closed]
I've read several thread around ServerFault about this, but still I am not satisfy with the answer so I post a question here.
I need a Origin Pull CDN that support big file (more than 200MB). I don't ...
