Newest 'cdn' Questions - Page 4

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Why controls inside update panels took long to update even website integrated with a CDN network? [closed]

I have a website which written by using ASP.NET. I hosted this website in USA ( Kansas city ) with Quad Core Processor and 8Gb RAM( Dedicated Server: 1GBPS Speed Line). Also my website is running ...

Prageeth Liyanage

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asked Jul 29, 2015 at 5:49

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2 answers

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Is it possible to put http torrent tracker under CDN to prevent DDOS?

I am thinking about setting up torrent tracker on the same dedicated server where torrent related website will be located. I want to do that because my website and tracker will interact with each ...

JustAsMe

21

asked Jul 25, 2015 at 10:08

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1 answer

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Cloudfront: Pulling content from subdomain - serving it on main domain

I'm setting up CloudFront (CF) using third party hosting as the origin. What I want is to have the CF servers act as my own hosting, meaning I don't want to fetch files from the likes of cdn.domain....

Trace DeCoy

153

asked Jul 13, 2015 at 10:07

1 vote

1 answer

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nginx no speed limitation for a connection

I have a server with nginx installed on it to serve some files for downloading. I also didn't change default configuration of nginx. Problem is that when I try to download from this server it seems ...

Mohammad ali baghershemirani

113

asked Jun 30, 2015 at 11:00

25 votes

5 answers

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Does CURL cache requests?

This is a pretty long question, so bear with me. I wanted to stress my Akamai Server logged in from an AWS instance. So, I started running ab benchmark. However, they seemed ridiculously fast to ...

Akshaya Shanbhogue

352

asked Jun 10, 2015 at 19:55

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1 answer

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How to setup a content repository in Linux? [closed]

I want to setup a server that'll host documents and image files which can be accessed efficiently from other application servers and databases on the same enterprise data center. What are the some of ...

Rifat Rousseau

9

asked May 21, 2015 at 8:30

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1 answer

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How does "Cloud Files" from Rackspace know about my CNAME record?

TLDR: when I make this DNS record: whatever.mydomain.com. IN CNAME biglongjibberstring.r89.cf2.rackcdn.com. How does Rackspace know that this random host name I've chosen should go to my Cloud ...

bgp

853

asked May 15, 2015 at 2:42

-3 votes

1 answer

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CDN - find the source IP [closed]

I want to communicate directly with website using CDN (Akamai, CloudFlare, etc.) Anyone knows if is it possible to find the IP address of websites using Akamai? or CloudFlare? I have tried to ping ...

yoav

1

asked Apr 29, 2015 at 9:32

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2 answers

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Misses in cloudfront CDN

I am a bit new to the world of CDN's. I am also running an internationa site, which we hope will one day have a lot of traffic, but for now trickles in. Site uses a image resizer behind a CDN to serve ...

Skarlinski

101

asked Apr 12, 2015 at 19:21

2 votes

0 answers

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Most bandwidth efficient setup for video sharing [closed]

I built a video sharing platform for a popular french podcast I contribute to. Initially I used S3 and linked directly to it, bad idea. Then I used a pull CDN to better optimize my bandwidth, but s3 ...

Tommy B.

1,434

asked Mar 26, 2015 at 22:14

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1 answer

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Heroku redirect file to serve from CDN

My Heroku backed app is now serving a certain JS file, but due to high rpms I would like to serve it from my CDN. Is it possible to make a redirect from myapp.herokuapp.com/file.js to mycdn.com/...

maephisto

131

asked Feb 10, 2015 at 14:11

2 votes

2 answers

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Azure CDN returning 404 not found for Storage Container Blob endpoints

My Azure CDN does not appear to be correctly mapped to my Storage Container Blob data. Storage I've created a Storage, which is online: Inside is a Storage Container: http://jasonsturges.blob....

Jason Sturges

853

asked Jan 21, 2015 at 7:31

4 votes

2 answers

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Do CDN providers run their own DNS servers?

In order to have efficient CDN, it needs to direct requests to the server nearest to the requester. How do they do that? Do they run their own DNS server that, when asked to resolve an address, it ...

Bozho

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asked Dec 12, 2014 at 22:17

1 vote

1 answer

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Force AWS CloudFront to refresh resources from origin without user requests

I'm deploying a CloudFront distribution for a widely distributed network. I'm using my own server as origin and I've configured the cache expiration to a custom value (say 24 hours). Everything works ...

elbuild

111

asked Nov 23, 2014 at 11:11

2 votes

1 answer

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How to use an origin-pull CDN with external CNAMEs?

I have a particular issue that I'm struggling with regarding setting up a CDN. To describe our situation: We are running an ASP.NET based CMS(DotNetNuke), configured with two different web heads on ...

Justin

21

asked Oct 14, 2014 at 19:15

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1 answer

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Problems accessing my servers - but only from German providers

I'm having a problem that I've been trying to resolve for months to no avail. I have several websites hosted on a dedicated server in the US. Those include http://noduslabs.com http://waytorussia....

Aerodynamika

246

asked Sep 29, 2014 at 12:25

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1 answer

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CDN and TTL on local EC2 files

I Have a file in CDN and I need a local copy of it in all of my EC2 instances. I like to set a TTL on the local copy of 5 minute, and have one of the following: Have it Fetch automatically as soon as ...

mina d

105

asked Sep 15, 2014 at 23:45

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1 answer

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Redirect to a CDN

I will like to distribute a javascript file with several of my clients, they have several thousands of unique visits a day on their pages, so my file will be called a lot of times, i don't want that ...

DomingoSL

375

asked Jul 2, 2014 at 13:53

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1 answer

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Slow Website Access from China

I just made a wordpress based website for a client that operates in China. The website is being cached completely by W3 Total Cache and served very fast in Europe (where our main server is located). ...

SimonEritsch

101

asked May 28, 2014 at 16:43

1 vote

1 answer

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Running a database heavy webapp in the UK and Aus server setup

I am running a webapp from a uk datacenter. Speed is fine as expected. The webapp relies heavily on a database. I would like to open the webapp to Australia and New Zealand but maintain good response ...

John

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asked May 23, 2014 at 22:12

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3 answers

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How to block CloudFront or other CDN to access my website

Some guys create a CloudFront CDN to proxy my site, so people can access my website using url like df03039lsls933.cloudfront.net instead of www.example.com How to block this using nginx? From ...

Ryan

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asked Apr 21, 2014 at 4:15

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2 answers

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Do I need CDN if I am target to small region?

I have website which is targeting to small geografical area, the bigest CDN companies don't even have CDN servers close to this area. I am wondering will I get any benefit to use CDN, becouse main ...

user418319

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asked Mar 17, 2014 at 10:19

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1 answer

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Google Cloud Storage vs Amazone S3 + Cloudfront? [closed]

So I am building a web service which is going to be hosting files up to 500mb in size, and am finished with the coding and now deciding on hosting. I see that Amazon Web Services is very popular, but ...

Lucifer N.

111

asked Feb 17, 2014 at 3:13

3 votes

1 answer

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How to do 'naked domain aliasing' like DNS hosts that support it?

My goal is to use GitHub Pages and also benefit from their CDN, without having to use a third-party DNS host that supports DNS ALIAS record types (or ANAME - neither are accepted standards). I want to ...

Tom Brossman

301

asked Jan 9, 2014 at 20:20

1 vote

1 answer

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Amazon CloudFront Synchronization

I want to leverage Amazon CloudFront to "cache" my webserver such that my website stays up even if my webserver goes down. I understand CloudFront has many edge servers that facilitate the request/...

EndlesKinetic

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asked Dec 16, 2013 at 15:17

1 vote

2 answers

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AWS: In what situations would you NOT want to put your entire domain in front of a CloudFront distribution?

Given the relatively recent support for POST/PUT/etc. (http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/10/15/amazon-cloudfront-now-supports-put-post-and-other-http-methods/), if you don’t require any ...

andybons

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asked Nov 14, 2013 at 23:51

2 votes

1 answer

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Is it possible to configure a CDN so that it will step out of the way for a subset of regional IPs?

We have a website which targets customers in China, both expat and local Chinese. We have an ICP license which allows us to host in a datacenter inside China. Internet in China is actually as fast as ...

rwired

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asked Nov 10, 2013 at 15:47

1 vote

2 answers

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Whole-site delivery on CloudFront

After much searching, I can't seem to find the question to whether it's viable to cache my entire website in Cloudfront. (Static assets as well as the HTML returned on a dynamic request). The Setup ...

fideloper

353

asked Oct 7, 2013 at 13:10

2 votes

0 answers

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High latency on domain with CDN

High latency on domain with CDN I have problems with latency on my server, these are the tests I made with blitz.io Latency album https://i.stack.imgur.com/nKV1r.jpg I would uploaded images here ...

Cokaric

21

asked Sep 5, 2013 at 13:37

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3 answers

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How to host a Wordpress site on multiple servers due to geographical siteload issues?

Wordpress website is currently hosted in the US, this is where 40% of our target audience is. The rest of visitors are coming form Middle east, Australia, Russia, China, Singapore, UK, Switzerland, ...

Alex

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asked Aug 27, 2013 at 21:28

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1 answer

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Reverse HTTP proxy as CDN origin server, how to handle last modified since?

I'm trying to set up redundant origin servers for a CDN that will deliver on demand video files. The current setup is that I have two "media" servers that have a large storage capacity and are running ...

Brian

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asked Aug 21, 2013 at 18:42

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1 answer

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Nginx Rewrite - How to redirect url for certain file type?

My current bargain CDN has very poor performance on video caching. What's worse, I don't have any access to its setting. So I am wondering is it possible to rewrite the url for certain file type to ...

KuN

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asked Jul 26, 2013 at 1:56

8 votes

1 answer

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Amazon S3 appears to be blocking cloudflare IP addresses. How do I fix it?

I have static content that is being served by Cloudflare. Cloudflare points to Amazon S3 to pick up the static content and serves it via a CNAME (cdn.mydomain.com). The bucket is setup properly and ...

JStark

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asked Jul 23, 2013 at 19:23

3 votes

2 answers

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How long does azure cdn live before updating

I am using the windows Azure CDN, And not like Amazon's one cannot configure any TTL regarding the files, I was wondering if there is any official document microsoft had regarding to the Time-to-...

Matan L

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asked Jul 17, 2013 at 9:20

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1 answer

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Configuring htaccess file for self hosted CDN

I am trying to set up a self hosted cdn for my site, but I am having problems with the rules in the htaccess file and I can't get it to work. At the moment the ftp server that will act as CDN has the ...

Alejandro Alcalde

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asked Jul 10, 2013 at 21:51

3 votes

2 answers

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What amount of effort and money should one invest against DDoS threats? [closed]

Typically, when you invest money to protect yourself against some possible threat, you should take into account two factors: the probability (p) of the problem actually happening how much money (m) ...

MiniQuark

4,005

asked Jul 3, 2013 at 16:08

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2 answers

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Backup files served on a cdn

I am thinking about using a CDN to serve my static files, rackspace cloud files to be exact. I am wondering is it normal to backup these files? Is there even a way to back them up?

xaevir

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asked Jun 30, 2013 at 18:34

1 vote

3 answers

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Chrome not caching CloudFront video/audio; CloudFront delivers http 1.0 headers

With the following response header: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: video/mp4 Content-Length: 3294545 Connection: keep-alive Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 21:17:34 GMT x-amz-meta-s3cmd-attrs: uid:501/gname:...

arxpoetica

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asked May 30, 2013 at 22:32

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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 ...

Ryan

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asked May 17, 2013 at 1:06

6 votes

1 answer

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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 ...

mrwooster

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asked May 6, 2013 at 20:20

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2 answers

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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/.... ...

Hzmy

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asked Apr 18, 2013 at 20:46

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2 answers

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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.

pradeepchhetri

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asked Apr 18, 2013 at 12:40

2 votes

1 answer

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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 ...

user79356

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asked Apr 15, 2013 at 14:09

1 vote

2 answers

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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 ...

Vesnoy

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asked Apr 14, 2013 at 20:09

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3 answers

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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 ...

kmgdev

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asked Apr 4, 2013 at 16:52

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2 answers

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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 ...

mustafa

111

asked Mar 27, 2013 at 18:16

2 votes

1 answer

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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 ...

UpTheCreek

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asked Mar 27, 2013 at 12:45

2 votes

1 answer

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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 ...

Emil C

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asked Mar 5, 2013 at 13:06

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1 answer

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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. ...

user715564

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asked Mar 3, 2013 at 22:57

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1 answer

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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. ...

Bill CDNson

1

asked Feb 23, 2013 at 6:25

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