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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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How to use an origin-pull CDN with external CNAMEs?

I have a particular issue that I'm struggling with regarding setting up a CDN. To describe our situation: We are running an ASP.NET based CMS(DotNetNuke), configured with two different web heads on AWS EC2 instances that sit behind an AWS ELB. We…
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Is it possible to configure a CDN so that it will step out of the way for a subset of regional IPs?

We have a website which targets customers in China, both expat and local Chinese. We have an ICP license which allows us to host in a datacenter inside China. Internet in China is actually as fast as anywhere else (faster than most places actually),…
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High latency on domain with CDN

High latency on domain with CDN I have problems with latency on my server, these are the tests I made with blitz.io Latency album https://i.stack.imgur.com/nKV1r.jpg I would uploaded images here but it requires 10+ rep, and can't post multiple links…
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How to host a Wordpress site on multiple servers due to geographical siteload issues?

Wordpress website is currently hosted in the US, this is where 40% of our target audience is. The rest of visitors are coming form Middle east, Australia, Russia, China, Singapore, UK, Switzerland, Kazakstan... all over the map. With all caching in…
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Recommend a content delivery network (CDN) for a specific purpose

could you please recommend a CDN for the following use: 1) Ability to update files on the edge servers automatically through API, so it should take no more than 5-10 minutes to make a new version of a file available to all customers worldwide. I…
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using a CDN on the same location as server

One of the purpose of a CDN is to distribute your static assets in an area closest to your user. So say my server is at location X and most of my users will be at Y. However the closest CDN server to Y will be at X. What is the advantage of using a…
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CDNs - is there a delay between file submission and availability?

I've never subscribed to a CDN before, and was hoping someone could share their experience. My question is: Is there a significant delay between a file being submitted via a CDN (via API), and it's availability on the network (including edge…
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static big files and a way to serve them securely (central authentication CDN)

I need to serve few static big files(about 4GB each) to several users, using 5 servers that are in different geographical regions. The idea is that nobody else gets the content as there's information in those files that is not meant for general…
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htaccess - How to allow access only to static files for specific domain

The idea is to serve js,css, img files using different domains so I created following domains: css.mydomain.com js.mydomain.com img.mydomain.com The main site URL is www.mydomain.com. When I access the site throw main URL every img,css,js files…
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Using Redirect for an SSL CDN to have a Custom Domain

We're looking to move our website/app assets to a CDN. The problem is, our CDN doesn't offer custom domain names with SSL. In other words, for SSL they offer https://1234.cdn.hostingcompany.com but not https://assets.mysite.com. So this seems like a…
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Test site speed

I am test driving an Akmai CDN architecture and before committing to buy, I would like to gauge the real performance gain from the acceleration feature. What would be the best MO for doing speed tests from different locations around the world? I…
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load balancing IIS7.5 server by geolocation

I have one web site and 3 servers in different location Asia, Europe, US. I am new in this things but what I want to do is implement ARR load balancing by geolocation (like CDN). Anyone know tutorial how to achieve it or from where to start?
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How can you use gzip for static website content served by a Content Delivery Network? Does it improve page load times?

I'm serving up most of my static media from a CDN for my website. This includes images, videos, javascript files, and CSS files. YSlow and Google's Performance tool tell me that I should be gzip'ing this content. How can I gzip content served up…
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What do you do when your site scales so much that uploaded_media can't fit on one machine?

What do you do when your site scales so much that your uploaded_media (in Django, where all uploaded media files from users is stored) can't fit on one machine? My personal case, I'm using Django and have one really large uploaded_media server with…
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Can a CDN (specifically CloudFront) stampede its origin server after a miss?

Similar to how a memcache server can stampede a db after a missed hit. Should I ever expect high traffic from my CDN(s)?
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