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I'm planning to use Amazon S3 with Cloudfront as CDN network.

But I'm guessing that changing the url from 345345df4.cloudfront.com to sub.domain.com will slow the process of download

Is this correct?

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It will make no difference. Clients have to make a DNS lookup to convert the name to an IP address; using a CNAME might make that slightly slower, but by tens of milliseconds. The download itself uses the IP address, and will be entirely unaltered.

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so do you think the hosting that holding the subdomain, will be affected and maybe it will affect the process also if it was slow and couldn't handle thousands of connections – Ahmed Janim Jun 8 '11 at 6:28
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no, DNS lookup is already highly optimised and cached and distributed in many locations including the user's computer. using a CNAME won't have any practical affect on whoever is hosting your DNS records – Myster Jun 29 '11 at 2:09

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