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

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) that problem would cost you if it…
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CloudFront - Users requests static files non-stop to make your bill high?

I had this weird wondering once. If I am using CloudFront as my CDN, I pay per requests made on my static files. So here comes the wondering. Can one keep requesting the same file in a non-stop fashion (with a script or something), in order to make…
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CDN CNAMEs not resolving to customer origin

I have set up an Edgecast CDN to mirror all my static content. Because I use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my main site—using Google Analytics which sets cookies—I've stored the corresponding static files in a separate…
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Using amazon S3 as storage for attachments in a web-mail system

I am looking to use S3 as data storage service for a mail system. The idea is to allow users to upload files that serve as attachments to their emails, which are then available to download from the web-service via a link to the file hosted on…
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CDN for caching REST api

I am doing some research on CDN providers, however I have a hard time finding out which ones are available, what exactly they offer, and if they are appropriate for my purpose. Hopefully you guys can give me some advice :-) We are hosting a public…
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ISP Point of Presence versus ISP data center and what effect it has on CDN server deployment

I would like to clarify my understanding of the difference between an ISP Point of Presence and an ISP data center. Perhaps more importantly, I'm trying to understand at what kind of granularity each is generally deployed, and what effect that has…
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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) as a fallback. We're using Amazon S3 for the…
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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 curious about what sort of things you typically have…
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CDN that supports custom SSL over custom domain

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 MaxCDN i don't even want to try to ask edgecast or…
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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 alias for…
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How to compare CDN services?

What are the metrics and their priorities to compare various CDN services?
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which CDNs are popular websites using?

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.
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how does CDN routing work

So, I know how a CDN works in principle and how it works from a customer's perspective. My question is more about the root of how they work, the routing. My limited knowledge points to just some fancy DNS work. Something along the lines of Geoipdns.…
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Optimizing IIS for serving static content over TLS

I am trying to fine tune an IIS 10 web server for the sole purpose of serving static files. I've disabled session state, disabled managed code, added all necessary public cache control headers with no expiry. But still it performs very very slow in…
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Hosted file is downloaded damaged by IE

I have a ZIP file hosted via Apache with Akamai as CDN, the problem is when trying to download it with IE (and just IE) it is damaged and I'm unable to open it. Since the problem occurs in other computers in different locations I've discarded…
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