Newest 'cdn' Questions - Page 6

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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 ...

TIW

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asked Jun 8, 2011 at 14:04

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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 ...

James Simpson

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asked Jun 7, 2011 at 22:57

3 votes

1 answer

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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) ...

nuecaster

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asked May 25, 2011 at 1:54

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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 ...

nuecaster

153

asked May 17, 2011 at 20:17

12 votes

5 answers

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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 ...

Dave Forgac

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asked May 17, 2011 at 17:37

3 votes

2 answers

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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 ...

Kyle

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asked May 11, 2011 at 15:28

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1 answer

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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 ...

Kyle

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asked May 11, 2011 at 14:12

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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 ...

Techboy

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asked May 9, 2011 at 14:11

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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 ...

luxerama

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asked May 4, 2011 at 8:50

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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, ...

Andrew Fashion

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asked May 3, 2011 at 5:49

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1 answer

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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 ...

alfish

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asked Apr 26, 2011 at 23:10

10 votes

4 answers

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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. ...

Greg

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asked Mar 26, 2011 at 19:19

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2 answers

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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 ...

DucDigital

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asked Mar 14, 2011 at 14:36

3 votes

2 answers

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CDN that supports custom SSL over custom domain [closed]

SSL is the biggest problem: S3/Cloudfront doesnt support it. Rackspace CloudFiles just told me they will support it in Q2 2011. MaxCDN told me its $299 setup fee and a $299 monthly fee. Based on ...

Tobi

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asked Mar 2, 2011 at 9:18

3 votes

5 answers

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Pointing www to a CDN(Akamai)

Why would someone point(CNAME) www.example.com to a cdn? When I run host on Etsy, I get a [c]$ host www.etsy.com www.etsy.com is an alias for www.etsy.com.edgekey.net. www.etsy.com.edgekey.net is an ...

Quintin Par

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asked Mar 1, 2011 at 3:20

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2 answers

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Processing files from a Content Distribution Network problem

From what I understand that CDNs are meant to physically cache your static files in multiple regions closer to your users. However, I've noticed a few websites that when a page is requested from their ...

Derek

1

asked Feb 18, 2011 at 2:48

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3 answers

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build my own CDN service

I have two servers, both with self domain 1st www.myexample1.com 2nd www.myexample2.com and now I would like to setup CDN of www.myexample1.com to www.myexample2.com but I dont know how setup DNS or ...

user5332

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asked Feb 11, 2011 at 6:43

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CDN question - factor bandwidth

I am new to cdn but want an idea of bandwidth use so i can plan budgeting. I am starting a social network and want to use a CDN for static content and user photos. Let's say in total i have 15 ...

Mani

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asked Feb 9, 2011 at 21:28

3 votes

2 answers

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How to compare CDN services?

What are the metrics and their priorities to compare various CDN services?

Jeff

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asked Jan 26, 2011 at 9:38

1 vote

1 answer

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May I use CDN for whole website (PHP, Apache, MySQL) or just for images and CSS, JS files?

May I use CDN for whole website (PHP, Apache, MySQL) or just for images and CSS, JS files? What's the best choice > cloud-hosting or dedicated-hosting? Does CDN has that support? Witch hosting you ...

Binyamin

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asked Jan 17, 2011 at 13:59

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Serving images from another hostname vs Apache overload for the rewrites

We are trying to improve further the speed of some sites with older HTML in order as well to obtain better SEO results. We have now applied some minify measures, combined html, css etc. We use a small ...

luison

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asked Jan 14, 2011 at 13:03

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CDN or seperate site to store static content?

If I understand this correctly, I have two options for static files: Use a CDN and throw all my static files on it. Use a separate domain just to store the static files so users can download it ...

marty

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asked Jan 1, 2011 at 1:03

1 vote

1 answer

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Calculate request frequency and bandwidth usage for specific resources (CDN related)

I am currently looking into the viability of using a CDN on my site (~2mill page views per month). However, before looking at the myriad packages available it makes sense to find out exactly what I ...

MrEyes

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asked Dec 7, 2010 at 17:08

6 votes

3 answers

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Akamai NetStorage vs. Akamai edge service

What's the difference between using Akamai NetStorage vs. Akamai's Edge Service? Below are the concepts that I believe differentiate them but I'd like more details from more experienced people. ...

Mark

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asked Dec 3, 2010 at 20:51

6 votes

3 answers

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Akamai vs smaller CDN for small/medium-size ecommerce traffic? (caching, latency, NetStorage)

The small/medium sized online retail company I work for uses Akamai as our CDN for static images, but I'm wondering whether it might be hurting rather than helping and, if it's suboptimal, what we ...

Aaron

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asked Nov 29, 2010 at 18:31

8 votes

3 answers

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Using EC2 as a Cloudfront Origin Server

Amazon has recently added the ability to use any server as an origin server for Cloudfront, removing the original S3 only restriction. My question is- how do I set this up? The AWS web-gui seems to ...

chrism2671

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asked Nov 12, 2010 at 14:24

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3 answers

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How to calculate actual gain from CDN?

I'm testing out a new CDN service (http://cloudflare.com), and I'm trying to figure out if it is giving much of a gain. I have a very fast internet connection so I can't see any increase in speed (...

James Simpson

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asked Sep 28, 2010 at 3:04

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2 answers

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Is using cloud files worth it? (Or any cdn?)

A little about my website: The front page needs to load fast, and it has a background image The website is an online store with lots of product images How much would it help alleviate the server of ...

Matthew

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asked Sep 10, 2010 at 17:11

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2 answers

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How to Tell Whether a site is using Akamai Networks

I'm trying to understand precisely how Akamai uses DNS lookups to redirect users to proximate servers. As I understand it, the client's browser tries to resolve a DNS name, such as a388.g.akamaitech....

Bryce Thomas

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asked Sep 3, 2010 at 17:19

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3 answers

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Is my vision of the ideal CDN wrong?

I know nothing about CDNs, and tomorrow I'm going to start what promises to be a lengthy investigation of them. But I wanted to share my ideal vision of a CDN - which basically maps to the concept of ...

David Semeria

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asked Aug 4, 2010 at 23:44

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3 answers

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Firewall rule to allow access to windows updates or other resources on a CDN?

What's the best way to poke a firewall hole in a border firewall to allow windows updates? As far as I can tell, the windows update sites are hosted on a content distribution network that can ...

chris

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asked Jul 30, 2010 at 13:31

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2 answers

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Adding expire headers to content served from CDN?

I'm using MaxCDN to serve content to my blog using W3 Total Cache. The problem I'm running into when evaluating my site using Google Page Speed and YSlow! is that expire headers are not being sent on ...

mdolon

asked Jul 22, 2010 at 20:00

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Need an anonymizer for my site

I have a website that I want to make public. However I don't want people to know its real location. Two solutions that could work were: To find a free webhosting and store the web interface part ...

facha

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asked Jul 20, 2010 at 10:25

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Website on CDN - server switching based on country/geography

Im going to implement CDN, but im still confuse how the CDN recognize where the request come from. for example, I have 2 servers. one in US and one in Japan. when request come from Hong Kong, I want ...

natiayS

asked Jul 15, 2010 at 13:49

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Can a CDN support streaming?

I operate Grinderschool.com, a poker training site run through video sessions. Our subscribers access our videos via either 1) direct download or 2) streaming access. Currently, we have things set up ...

Jeffrey Blake

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asked Jul 14, 2010 at 19:40

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Image serving and storage mechanism

My website publishes entertainment news daily. There are many number of images and videos we publish every day through admin panel. Currently the overall folder occupied 20 GB to store videos and ...

Macro

asked Jul 7, 2010 at 16:16

2 votes

2 answers

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Best way to implement Amazon CloudFront for established website

Some of you may have a solution for this, and I need to hear it. Basically, you have a website, a lot of categories ( games, blog etc ). The idea would be to use Amazon CDN for images, flv's, ...

Adrian A.

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asked Jun 22, 2010 at 19:36

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Nginx Static Content Server Maxing Out?

I use nginx to serve the static content for a decently busy website of mine. I have the logging disabled, and 4 worker processes enabled with 5,000 connections per worker (which should yield a max ...

Harry

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asked Jun 9, 2010 at 8:36

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VoxCAST / Voxel CDN experience?

I see Voxel quoting $.10/GB, no monthly commitment. At our traffic level, this is significantly cheaper than I'm getting quoted from more established CDN's (generally .18-.22/GB). Anyone have any ...

Neil

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asked Jun 1, 2010 at 20:40

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2 answers

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Web host for serving both western and asian users

Are there any hosting companies specialized in serving both European, N+S American and Chinese, Indian, Korean or Japanese users? I am looking for a dedicated or VPS to host a Drupal site, not a CDN. ...

Gabriel R.

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asked Apr 17, 2010 at 11:29

14 votes

2 answers

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Using Google's App Engine as CDN for static files

I am planning on moving my static files to Google's App Engine. I was wondering if this is a good idea to do. I have read that is it possible that Google will cache your files on multiple locations, ...

Saif Bechan

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asked Apr 16, 2010 at 16:50

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1 answer

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some european CDNs? [closed]

someone knows some CDN providers in Europe? cause i keep seeing big names like amazon, google, akamai, simplecdn, yahoo in all google searches. does it even matter where the CDN providers are ...

ajsie

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asked Apr 5, 2010 at 23:31

3 votes

3 answers

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which CDNs are popular websites using? [closed]

i wonder which CDNs popular websites are using? is there a list giving some more information about this? would be great to have some more insight.

ajsie

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asked Apr 5, 2010 at 23:27

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1 answer

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equivalent to CDN but for dynamical content?

so i know for serving static elements (css, js, images, videos etc) you should use CDN since they are spread out throughout the world. but how could i spread out by apache servers? is there an ...

ajsie

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asked Apr 5, 2010 at 21:43

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2 answers

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CDN vs own apache servers?

i know that CDN is just for static contents. but then i still have to spread out by apache servers to all corners of the world right? so when i have done it, why dont i just set up some dedicated ...

ajsie

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asked Apr 5, 2010 at 21:37

4 votes

1 answer

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scalability: when to use CDN?

i've read about CDN but dont know exactly what it is for. lets say i've got an international social network (text and image content), and it's growing in traffic from different countries, do i have ...

ajsie

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asked Apr 5, 2010 at 12:00

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2 answers

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Etag configuration with multiple apache servers or CDN / How does Google do ETags?

I have an application which is served from two apache2 servers and I want to configure the ETags on static content. In the future I would also like to use a CDN. I see that this is supposed to be a ...

perrierism

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asked Mar 8, 2010 at 23:25

11 votes

7 answers

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Looking for a recommendation on measuring a high availability app that is using a CDN

I work for a Fortune 500 company that struggles with accurately measuring performance and availability for high availability applications (i.e., apps that are up 99.5% with 5 seconds page to page ...

Tim Reddy

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asked Mar 4, 2010 at 14:23

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3 answers

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Does cloud storage replicate the data over many datacenters if so it means i benefit content delivery network?

Let's assume that i want to use cloud storage service from one of the cloud storage provider, i got X gb structured and unstructured data and i will use this data as my contents of my interactive web ...

Berkay

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asked Mar 3, 2010 at 17:25

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1 answer

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CDN Rerouting on 404 (file not yet in synch with original storage)

Here is the problem. I've setup my app(on EC2) to store uploaded images directly on Amazon S3. I'd like to be able to serve static files(cdn) from my 'home' server so I wrote script that does sync ...

Alan Ristić

3

asked Feb 11, 2010 at 9:34

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