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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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 virtualized infrastructure and we've always…
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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 traffic? Also, AFAIK, cloud files does not offer…
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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 there, and then keep the database and non-interface…
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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 the contents served from Japan server, because it…
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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 in a shared hosting environment, however I am…
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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 images.
The main problem with this is, it is taking…
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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 connection limit of 20,000.
The server is only…
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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 experience using them? Thoughts?
Thanks!
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some european CDNs?
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 located? cause apparently it won't matter cause their…
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ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE on IPv6
I'm having an issue at some coffee shops that use comcast wifi. These shop only allow ipv6 and it's causing websites to not load with the error ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE. Some websites work (google.com, gmail.com, etc.) and others fail (BBC.com,…
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Disable CDN redirect
I'm on Litespeed server (shared hosting).
I want to disable CDN redirect to make links to my WordPress images direct links without CDN
for Example:
https://sportnews.dz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/boiudabouzz248.jpg
But, when the url is accessed,…
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CDN CNAME resolves as the main host (how to restrict)
I recently created a CDN at StackPath. Everything works well, it serves files via a subdomain I created (cdn.mysite.com), which was created as a CNAME for the main site (CDN being the CNAME). However, while everything works well...I only need the…
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Apache2 with Virtualhosts and Cloudflare are not working
I have a Debian 11 Server with one public IPv4 Address and One Domain. The subdomain mail is defined in a virtual host with a reverse proxy for mailcow. The subdomain mail is also the reverse DNS for the server. The root Domain and www subdomain are…
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Performance for static files (HTML, CSS and JS) of PHP Server - CDN vs NGINX
Without going too much into detail to avoid that this question becomes opinion-based; so talking from a purely technical perspective: When you currently have a PHP-Apache setup, both PHP and Apache running on its most recent versions, and PHP…
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Using Nginx reverse proxy with CloudFront
We have a domain served by CloudFront and now we need to add a reverse proxy using Nginx (unfortunately the reverse proxying capabilities of CloudFront are insufficient for our use case).
My question is, where should we put this Nginx…
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