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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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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 where they can download their file. My…
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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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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 back on rotation, and right before I take web2 out…
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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, especially because of the many static .js and .css…
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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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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 with a free domain name I have. Summed…
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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 javascripts. If I am understanding http caching services…
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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 something that sort of does this but only for an /images…
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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 a small test run with 1 ad over the weekend. It…
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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 server, I guess I can't tell browsers to cache it…
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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 gets updated by the web servers through rsync. The…
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Server performance for high traffic?

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, anywhere from 10,000-50,000 signups in a day which…
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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 server, they grab the asset files from their…
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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 Apache that, so both servers served files for…
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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 javascript files and 10 css files for my site. I assume…
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