Questions tagged [cdn]

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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CloudFront usually misses from browser, hits from cURL

When I load my HTML page in my browser, all requests for assets have x-cache: Miss from cloudfront. If I reload my browser very quickly, I can sometimes get a Hit. If I open my developer tools and "copy request as curl", I reliably get a hit, no…
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Understanding Azure CDN

I am new to Azure CDN. Basically, I am trying to use CDN for my php website images, javascript files and css files. I have created an Azure blob storage, then I added one container and started adding file to that container. I noticed that each file…
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Cloudfront: How to test Path Pattern matching without deploying any changes

I just need a way to test my path pattern for cloudfront first before saving the behavior for the pattern because I noticed that it's taking more than a few minutes for the changes to be deployed. Basically, the pattern that I want to implement is…
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Cannot Set Up Naked Domain on Azure CDN

What I am using: Azure CDN: Premium Verizon DNS: DnsMadeEasy I am struggling to setup all endpoints of my domain on Azure CDN; I am able to set up endpoints with a prefix to my domain (i.e prefix.mydomain.com) but for the naked domain…
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Proper way to handle file serving

We have a website where we our daily bandwidth use is roughly 10GB of user generated contents. The software layer is simply Heroku + some addons for DB and monitoring, and we are handling the uploads and data serving with S3 and Cloudfront. The DNS…
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WordPress site behind CDN; want -origin to bypass CDN

For a multi environment setup I have the following: https://www.example.com/ => CloudFront => https://www-origin.example.com/ => WordPress FastCGI This works fine. However I would like to be able to bypass CloudFront for debugging purposes (putting…
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Setting up CloudFront [Custom Origin] for EC2 instance

I have been checking things up & down on Google & AWS Documentation but can't seem to nail this one. I have an EC2 instance setup with a domain being served via a virtual host and I need to use a CDN for the contents on the site, mainly images ie…
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Simplecdn alternatives for progressive streaming

I´m looking for a CDN to host my videos, but I need the ability to progressively stream from them (currently not available at simplecdn).
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How to avoid first byte timeout with nginx

I have an application in RubyOnRails, proxied by a NGINX server that is behind a CDN service. The CDN has a limitation that if the response first byte does not arrive in 60 seconds, the CDN server responds: Error 503 first byte timeout The problem…
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Can I use the same SSL certificate on the CDN and the origin

It's pretty straightforward question, I have a certificate issued by DigiCert, already installed it on my origin, and I want to use it for the CDN. I'm starting to configure Akamai CDN in front of my origin, but they say they will purchase a…
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how does AWS S3 bucket Redundant storage works with filepicker/filestack

I am using Filestack https://www.filestack.com/ as fileserver and Amazon S3 as filestorage as complete storage solution for my clients. Filestack offers CDN (Content Delivery Network) which serves file from nearest POP. Also i have chosen Redundant…
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AWS CloudFront Limit Origin Access

I am averaging 12,000 page views per day, but my cloudfront is getting around 6 million requests for images and fonts every day. I suppose it is possible that all of these requests are coming from my visitors, but I am having my doubts. I know that…
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How to set up AWS Cloudfront for dynamic number of domains for a dynamic site?

THE SETUP We have a webs/wix/etc-like website management system we are trying to use with CloudFront. It has the following domains and subdomains. - ourdomain: our main website - admin.ourdomain: the administration interface for every website,…
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Most bandwidth efficient setup for video sharing

I built a video sharing platform for a popular french podcast I contribute to. Initially I used S3 and linked directly to it, bad idea. Then I used a pull CDN to better optimize my bandwidth, but s3 is still solicited a lot. Now I'm compressing…
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Azure CDN returning 404 not found for Storage Container Blob endpoints

My Azure CDN does not appear to be correctly mapped to my Storage Container Blob data. Storage I've created a Storage, which is online: Inside is a Storage Container: http://jasonsturges.blob.core.windows.net/cdn My Storage Container has…
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