content-delivery-network

Where can I find free content hosting?

Is there any free hosting for Javascript? Recently google has been hosting jQuery,etc... and Yahoo hosts it's YUI, which is great, but it'd be even better if there was a service that could host user scripts and things like that. Any ideas? ...

Amazon CloudFront

Good morning, I am looking into an inexpensive solution to deliver content to our European customers, I came across Amazon CloudFront. I was wondering if any of you had any experience using this service? If so, what are your thoughts compared to something like Limelight or Akamai? Thanks! ...

What are your experiences with Content Delivery Networks (CDN) ?

What are your experiences with CDNs regarding ease of development, support, performance, pricing, etc? I am planning to use it to host a big number of images. ...

serving js libraries: better performance from google code or using asset packager?

I am working on a rails application that uses big javascript libraries (e.g. jquery UI), and I also have a handful of my own javascript files. I'm using asset packager to package up my own javascript. I'm considering two ways of serving these files: Link to the jQuery libraries from Google Code as described at http://code.google.com/...

CDN with South America peering points / edge nodes

Hello, Does anyone one know of a CDN (Content Delivery Network) with true South American peering points or edge nodes? This seems to be quite rare. It seems that most CDNs serve Central and South America from Texas. However, our application requires low latency in Brazil, so this is not a good solution for us. We would like to avoid ...

CDN: Alternatives to SimpleCDN Mirror Bucket ?

I'm using http://SimpleCDN.com They have a "Mirrored Bucket" which is an "origin pull". How it works is I store my conent at mysite.com/abc.jpg and SimpleCDN pulls any requests from mysite.com, caches them in their CDN if not already in the cache, and display my content at simplecdn.com I really like Origin Pull because I don't have t...

using a content delivery network for user uploaded images?

like their profile pictures and albums? ...

Why would it be important that a content delivery network uses a "reverse caching proxy"?

I was reading a description of a project on Github that is a Python-based content delivery network. Why is it important that it uses a "reverse caching proxy" - and what does that mean in this context? ...

How does the Customer Origin/ Mirror bucket concept in CDN work?

I call a 3rd party webservice for some content. I dont want to call them every time. Instead, I am planning to create a mirror bucket/customer origin to the webservice so that I always request content from the CDN and the CDN can throttle the requests to the 3rd party. My question is, to implement this, does the 3rd party need to kno...