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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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DNS load balancing with multiple IPs on the same domain in GoDaddy

Looking for a cheaper solution than amazon CloudFront, I placed two "A" records with different IPs to different servers on the same subdomain in a NameSever managed by GoDaddy in order to achieve some kind of load balancing and fail over mechanism…
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Forward Akamai's True-Client-IP via F5 BigIP

Akamai returns client IP in True-Client-IP header. This can be disabled in Akamai settings so that Akamai will return client IP in HTTP-X-Forwarded-For header, but this will contain multiple IP addresses (Client IP, Proxy 1, Proxy 2, etc). I need to…
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Using local server as a part of CDN

I would like to use CDN for my website. But more than 70% of the requests would be from within my own network. so I am planning to use my local server as part of the CDN, so that when somebody from within the network visits my website, the static…
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How Do I Mask the CDN Domain with My Own Domain Name?

So i've been trying out cloudfront from AWS. Why is the URL 'example.com' resolving to 'example.com.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com' in the Address Bar? I've tried googling loads of questions with this problem but the fact that i'm not seeing any…
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Rewrite subdomains in Nginx

Because I don't want to use CDN anymore I would like to rewrite cdn.example.com to www.example.com. How to do this with Nginx? There is only www.example.com in my server block.
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How can I find out if the response came from the edge server or the origin (CDN)

Is there a way to find out where the response response came from? From the CDN in Korea or my origin in L.A? Example1: Response headers: Server: Apache Example2: Response headers Server: AkamaiGHost Are these responses both coming from Akamai, or is…
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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.com, but from my main domain at domain.com. How do…
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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 Files container/account as opposed to another…
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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 most images. The problem is that we get a lot of…
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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/bucket/file.js without makeing the redirect inside my…
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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.net http://polysingularity.com I have a major…
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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 the TTL expires. Have it delete automatically,…
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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 pressure on my web server, so i bought a CDN…
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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). But my customer told me that if he visits the…
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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 server will be closer geograficaly?
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