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automatic push to CDN deployment strategy

Does anyone have ideas for a strategy to push content to a CDN upon deployment? The key issue I'm facing is that we have a site that is available in various contexts: local development, development server, staging, then finally live. The liver version of the site needs to load assets from a domain, which will be pointed to a CDN: asset...

Limelight CDN PHP upload interface code

Does any one out there have any php example code to upload files from a php form to the Limelight CDN? Thanks! Paul ...

ajax.microsoft.com vs cookieless domain for cdn.

If I'm right, each request for http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.4.2.js uses something like 3kb of microsoft.com cookies. Do I not understand something and it doesn't matter or is Microsoft wrong? ...

Tim Thumb for an External Host / CDN

I'm running a stock copy of tim thumb on a clients website. Works great but does not support external hosts for the pictures. My clients uses an amazon CDN / Flickr for all of their websites pictures which doesnt allow me to resize on the fly. Has anyone found a work around for this? http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ ...

Is it worth it to apply a cdn to static media on a production site?

Pretty much all of our sites are setup the standard mod_php, apache2, LAMP style with the static media living on the same domain as the dynamic php scripts. I'm wondering if there are any practical benefits to actually switching to a cdn? If I'm not really having issues with my server performance, is it really worth it? ( Our servers ty...

semi dynamic cdn

i'm developing couple of websites using php (directory script, etc.) and wordpress as cms. i need to improve its performance, by using cdn for static files (css, js, images). the problem is, css and javascript files are generated on the fly. i did that due to yahoo and some expert advice to combine the files into one file. also changing ...

How to use Asp.net Ajax control toolkit from CDN?

Is it possible to use it without actually downloading the binaries and adding it to project as reference? ...

Looking for a good Dynamic Imaging Solution

I work for a small E-Commerce shop and we are looking for a process that will handle resizing our product images dynamically. Currently our designers take high resolution photos, either provided by the manufactures or created in house, and alter them to fit various pages on our site. The designers are constantly resizing, cropping, alte...

CDN for blueprint css framework

Hi All, Does anyone know a free CDN for blueprint css framework thanks in advance cheers, sameera ...

AS3 FLVPlayback and problems with SMIL files from Highwinds CDN

Here is the src of my SMIL file (with potentially sensitive data XXXX'd out): <smil> <head> <meta base="rtmp://fms004.dc1.hwcdn.net/XXXXXXXX/_definst_"/> </head> <body> <video src="mp4:fms/myvids/EBCVids/onemin/1.mov?doppl=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX </body> </smil> I've verified that the smil file is accessible on the CDN serv...

Implementing fallback from Google AJAX Libraries API to local jQuery

After looking up the advantages and disadvantages of using Google's AJAX Libraries API instead of using jQuery locally, I saw that someone wrote in an answer (here on Stack Overflow, of course) that it's possible to get around the downtime that Google's API sometimes experiences by somehow falling back to a local copy of the library you ...

Is there a publicly available CDN that hosts JSON2?

It's well known that Google and Microsoft host several common javascript libraries on their CDNs (content distribution networks). Unfortunately neither seems to host JSON2.js. I'm aware that I could upload a copy of JSON2.js to my server and serve it myself, but there are a number advantages CDNs offer that I would like to take advanta...

Google CDN not gzipping jquery

If I navigate here: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js I download 70k using Firefox 3.6.3 and I can confirm it is sending Accept-Encoding: gzip. If I use the Microsoft one: http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js I download 30k (and it comes through as Content-Encoding: gzip) I am also exp...

ASP .NET 4.0 How do I Redirect/Override the default CDN path for ScriptManager when EnableCDN=true

I am using the EnableCdn=true in my ScriptManager so that WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd are overridden with static links to JS libraries at the MS CDN service as follows: <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnableCdn="true" /> How do I override the CDN URLs or service so that I can retrieve the scripts over...

Better to combine & minify javascript or use Google CDN?

I am building a site which currently uses javascript from several sources: Group 1: Google Maps API v3 (hosted by Google) Group 2: jQuery & swfobject (hosted on Google CDN) Group 3: Several jQuery plugins and non-jquery javascript files (hosted on my server) I am using Justin Etheredge's tool SquishIt to combine and minify all the java...

Getting the download count of a specific S3 object

I've got a number of S3 objects that are available to my customers. Since I'd like to bill my customers by usage, I wondered if there is any smart kind of way to get the number of times a given file has been downloaded? Alternatively, I suppose I could parse the log files provided by S3, but with 10m+ fetches per customer this might be ...

Publishing libraries to Googles or Microsofts CDNs

If I wanted to get a javascript library published to the ajax CDNs hosted by Google or Microsoft, what would I have to do? Are there any formal requirements for this, like number of users etc? ...

Would using free image hosting be a viable alternative to a CDN?

Here's my situation: I'm hosting a personal website on my home desktop computer. I expect my site to have around 1000 visitors per day. The problem is that my Internet connection isn't very fast (20 mbps download, 4 mbps upload). Most of the pages on my site have around 2 MB of images. I'm thinking of uploading those images to around 10...

ASP.Net: Fast way to check for the existence of images on a remote server

Hi, I have a website which loads images from a CDN. I have a requirement to check for the existence of 100s of images on the CDN. I am using this code to achieve this: Protected Function RemoteImageExists(ByVal Path As String) As Boolean Dim httpRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(Path), HttpWebRequest) http...

Avatar image: store in database or on CDN?

Avatar image: store in database or on CDN? Ps( avatar is the users profile photo) ...