What are the benefits of hosting your images on a subdomain such as "img.domain.com"? If you're not on a CDN is there any real benefit to this? Update So doing this with CSS and JS files would also serve the same purpose? ...
Is the CDN serivce a part of the Cloud Computing conception? ...
I'm trying to use Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloudfront CDN to deliver the jar files of my applet application. I'm seeing several cache misses of my jars by the java plugin. This is a show-stopper for me, as the size of my application is around 3Mb, and I can't make my customers re-download the application every time. The problem is that, du...
Does anyone know of a good/free CDN? We're hosting a small web app and want to load the Jquery JavaScripts from a CDN. Advice would be appreciated. ...
It seems that the popularity of jQuery and MS AJAX, as well as tools like YSlow & Google Page Speed have given rise to common components being hosted on Content Delivery Networks (CDN). So which CDN's exist and what files do they serve? ...
Hello, I am currently developing an ASP.NET web application and do most of my development on the road, i.e. offline. I plan to use Google/Microsoft/an-other CDN for JQuery and a couple of other script resources. My question is, is there a straightforward way to develop with a link to a local file within the solution, but to point to the...
Hi. I want to use Amazon S3/CloudFront to store flash files. These files must be private as they will be accessed by members. This will be done by storing each file with a link to Amazon using a mysql database. My problem is this... A high level member who has access to lots of flash files and content can simply find out the URL and the...
I would like to build my own Content Distrobution Network and I have come across a blog post showing how to do it with one of Google's services. But I can't understand it. Here's a few more questions. Are images hosted in Flickr considered to be "in a CDN"? If I create a subdomain within my domain, put directories for files in there, a...
I am using IE8 with a Intranet app in Local Intranet zone and find that it refuses to load the Google CDN hosted jQuery! Is there some setting I need to change? Hovering my mouse over the Lock icon at the bottom right of the window shows a tooltip "No items are being blocked on this page". Help? Thanks ...
I have a web that currently runs off one Mediatemple VPS. I'm now at the stage were the site is getting bogged down with scaling issues and I need to move to a better setup. Is this a sensible setup: php on one server mysql database on another Cloud Files CDN used to server images, javascript and css My main thinking is to put the ...
I can obviously do some limited testing of my own, but I'm hoping to hear from some people with real-world experience on at least medium-scale web sites. Two of the items on every "top 10" list for optimizing sites/bandwidth are: Consolidate as much JS and CSS as possible into a single file (to reduce round trips); and Use a Content D...
I use quite a lot of Dojo, but to date I've only used if by including from a CDN such as AOL/Google. Are there advantages to hosting a copy of Dojo rather than using it via a CDN? I don't have much need to alter the code base, but I imagine there are other advantages/disadvantages? ...
I have a CDN that is storing media files. Each file I want to store as just the ID number of the file in the data so, file.zip = 4423342 on the server. The problem is, the CDN does not allow php or any form of programming. How can I make it so I have a local file that is used to set the headers and let me change it so when they download ...
I have the nginx upload module handling site uploads, but still need to transfer files (let's say 3-20mb each) to our cdn, and would rather not delegate that to a background job. What is the best way to do this with tornado without blocking other requests? Can i do this in an async callback? ...
I'm wondering if there's an easy way to specify a CDN for all content that I reference through Url.Content in my views. Something that I could configure in my Web.config file in a way similar to the following. <cdn> <add filetype="css" root="http://mycdn.mydomain.com/stylesheets/" /> <add filetype="js" root="http:/...
I'm working on a website which allows users from different part of world to upload files of size upto 500 MB. The problems are: As it is a HTTP transfer, it is slow. As it is a HTTP transfer, it is non-resumable. Users really suffer because of these two problems. So, I want to find a FTP provider which can provide me the services m...
i am use a lamp environment , What things I need to pay attention during the development of the site, if the client wants to be ready to use CDN ? thanks ...
I've been handed a Coldfusion application to support and I noticed that CF is adding script tags to certain pages. It appears these js files are supporting certain CF tags because I can't find any reference to the .js file(s) in .cfm file (or in any subsequent include files). The .js files are popular libraries which can be accessed via...
Does anyone know of inexpensive "origin pull" CDN service providers. The only provider that I've found that provides this are SimpleCDN and Akamai. Akamai is crazy expensive and SimpleCDN seems to change their business model daily, so I'm concerned with using them. ...
Working on a major financial company's website, we tend to shy away from using the CDN-hosted versions of the jQuery library used throughout our site because of "security concerns". I'm assuming (although I've never had it fully explained) that these concerns relate to potential physical security threats through the risk of code being c...