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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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Preload/Prime Amazon Cloud Front CDN before move.

I am changing CDNs and I would like to preload some content to AWS Cloud Front so that my origin server is not hammered during that transition. Any tips?
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How do I configure an SSL only site, in a way that doesn't affect browser connection limits

The Yahoo Developer Best Practices recommend using multiple hosts (host1.company.com, host2.company.com, etc..) as a way of overcoming a webbrowsers built in limitation of only issuing two concurrent requests per domain. Please gloss over this…
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Monitoring CDN from different geographical locations

Recently we had a problem with our CDN service: one of edge locations cached incomplete version of javascript file and our customers from United Arab Emirates (and maybe some other nearby countries) were not able to use our service. This issue is…
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Are there any CDNs that will automatically edge cache anything you set cache-control headers for?

I'm new to CDNs. I have dynamically generated pages that have a 30 minute expiry on each URL, and I want these to be edge cached. Are there any CDNs that can just act as a proxy cache and when a user requests a page, the CDN cache it for the next…
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Best way to implement Amazon CloudFront for established website

Some of you may have a solution for this, and I need to hear it. Basically, you have a website, a lot of categories ( games, blog etc ). The idea would be to use Amazon CDN for images, flv's, javascript js, and css. What's the best way to implement…
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Web host for serving both western and asian users

Are there any hosting companies specialized in serving both European, N+S American and Chinese, Indian, Korean or Japanese users? I am looking for a dedicated or VPS to host a Drupal site, not a CDN. Thanks.
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Does cloud storage replicate the data over many datacenters if so it means i benefit content delivery network?

Let's assume that i want to use cloud storage service from one of the cloud storage provider, i got X gb structured and unstructured data and i will use this data as my contents of my interactive web page. And now i have some doubts about this…
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Are HTTP Headers configured by the CDN or by the application?

This is kind of a theoretical question, and I guess it may be too broad or unclear. Foobar is an application serving users across the internet. It relies on a CDN to improve its resiliency, speed, etc to serve people wherever they are. Are the HTTP…
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How to prevent DDOS attack impact on Netlify? (downtime + bandwith usage/cost)

Situation: React app that was initially running on a VPS A few days ago, we were the target of a DDOS attack that took the site down. During the attack, we decided to migrate to Netlify. Once migrated, the site was live again. The attack was…
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How to get multiple DNS Geo balancing entry points

I am facing a problem. I will set up a CDN with multiple dedicated servers in multiple zones (Asia, US, Eu), and I will set up an entry point with Nginx proxy with geoip routing. But with this solution I just move the problem higher. Because this…
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AWS Cloud Front, how to request origin using correct url

I'm trying to cache a website that is on an EC2, it has an URL uncached.xyz.com, so i created an Cloud Front with the origin pointed to uncached.xyz.com and created a record xyz.com that points to the cloudfront distribution, named something like…
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Could Cloudflare slow down writing process to database?

I have two identical WordPress sites - live and staging - both sitting in the same EC2 server. The live is using Cloudflare, the staging is not. I noticed that database writing processes are slower in the live site. Have you experienced this? Could…
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How Akamai CDN serves the content from closes edge server to user ?a

After going through some resources on google, got the idea how Akamai CDN edge servers works but got some questions about internals. Say I have got static content cached at Akamai CDN(XXX.XX.XXX.XXX say in seattle) for my site…
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How to use AWS CloudFront for serving both Images and Website?

I have an e-commerce website, an ASP.NET website running on Windows/IIS. Currently I have all my product photos on the local server's File System but since the number of photos are growing I have decided to move the photos to S3 bucket on AWS. To…
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How does cloudflare cdn work?

As far as I understand, you need to enter the original DNS records for the site, and you receive 2 cloudflare nameservers which you put in at the registrar, and cloudflare tests which nameservers are active and the corresponding DNS records get…
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