A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network.
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Should I add the CDN or the source URL of an image to the XML image sitemap?
I'm creating a WP plugin and I have the source URL for the image and the CDN URL to the image as well that is generated by replacing the host to the CDN host. Which is better, if I add the source URL ...
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Cloudflare is it safe?
I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first.
How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare?
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Does google take into account page load differences from caching?
Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site ...
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Is it ethical to use Google Analytics on a site crime victims use to make 'anonymous' reports?
Our local police force have a website for rape victims to use to report attacks anonymously. At the top of the page is a 'Report anonymously' link, which takes you to a page using Google Analytics as ...
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I want to build a script CDN for my place of employment [duplicate]
I write a bunch of scripts (javascript, php, perl) for my work. Right now, people have to get the scripts themselves from our sharepoint, and then install it as either a bookmarklet or a greasemonkey ...
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Images on a subdomain, hosted on the same server — will simultaneous downloads increase? (CDN)
Browsers only allow you to download a limited number of concurrent files from the same domain.
Would a subdomain for images (basically as a content delivery network) on the same web hosting server ...
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prevent hotlinking of off-site content?
I have a www.example.com site where I serve all static content (e.g. http.//www.example.com/image.jpg) off a CDN with URLs like http://static.example.com/image.jpg
An Apache 2 .htaccess rule ...
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Is it possible to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS?
I need to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS, My DNS server have much more options that I do need.
Instead of setting cloudflare as my dns server, I have added it as a NS record from ...
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CDN for zocial css file [closed]
I am looking to use zocial css file for a site and need to figure out if any CDN hosts this file. If not, I will resort to using the local server (or my own CDN package). I do not think relying on ...
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How to view website from different locations [duplicate]
I'm trying to view my website from different locations around the world.
I tried browser shot but it's not really accurate and does not allow me to select which country I want.
I specifically want ...
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One CDN with origin pull and two servers
I have two dedicated servers serving the same website. I am thinking of adding CDN to it... Since the CDN will pull the contents from server, my concern is won't it have any naming conflicts ??? To ...
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Github download is deprecated [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm using Github for a Open Source project, we have also used their file system so that users can download our binary ...
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Internal CDN and setting up subdomain to increase maximum parallel connections
I've heard that browsers can have around maximum of 6 parallel connections per domain at a time.
So I decided to have another subdomain "cdn." then use mod_rewrite to point to media folder then ...
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CDN for site with target market in Australia
I was told that http://www.edgecast.com/ is very good CDN provider for Australian market.
I have a cloud server based in Sydney Australia but was wondering whether it's even worth getting cdn as my ...
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Problems Using CloudFlare On Blogger
Here's the situation. I got a TLD for my blogger blog and set it up using the instructions from blogger. Blogger asks to:
Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or ...
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Slower site with the *same* configuration than a mirror copy…?
I've got this Drupal site (ligadelconsorcista.org) that I have to move it from one server to another. The reason was that my older host even when it was pretty decent, it started a couple of months ...
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Concerns about moving media files to a CDN and impact on SEO
I'd like to move all my media files to a CDN (Windows Azure is my best choice for now).
Two questions :
How can I avoid SEO and redirections issues for the previously uploaded media files ?
For ...
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Non-dynamic CMS [duplicate]
Some of the web sites I visit every day (news, sports, etc..), although the content changes very often (several times per day), the URLs always have .html extension, what makes me thing that the ...
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Is there a CDN for backbone.marionette?
Getting started with Backbone and Marionette, I was about to copy the file at https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/blob/master/lib/backbone.marionette.js to my local server, but ...
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How to use Cloudflare and Namecheap email forwarding at the same time?
I want to use Cloudflare, and it requires that I use their nameservers.
The problem is that I'm using some features from Namecheap like email forwarding, which will be disabled (if I didn't get it ...
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Cache website via CDN for visitors, not for users
I'm not sure what this is called. For example, if you're logged out of Reddit, you see a cached, static version of the site from the CDN. When you're logged in, you don't hit the CDN and instead ...
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Web hosting for Israeli visitors
I developed a version of a client's main website in Hebrew. Most of the Hebrew site visitors will be coming from Israel. My server is fast in the States but sluggish in Israel (per some ping testing). ...
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Is Cloudflare unzipping gzipped dynamic content?
I'm using Cloudflare for a small website that is frequently accessed from mobile phones where bandwidth usage is crucial. I used to gzip every php response and this reduced my bandwidth usage, ...
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Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?
Background
From my understanding, http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg, can help the ranking of http://mywebsite.com in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern).
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Need a CDN with SSL
We currently use Edgecast through Speedyrails. Back when I did my research they were both fast and very cost-effective.
I haven't looked in a while, but now we need SSL on our assets as well.
I ...
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HTTP Header Cache Time: s-maxage and max-age
I am setting up a CDN for my website, I found the following sample for adding to the 'httpd.conf' file, this is used to adjust the cache-time for client and CDN:
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType ...
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Setting Up CDN…beginner questions
I am using MediaTemple web hosting and they are using Edgecast's CDN network. I am planning to join CDN service, so I read through the guide, but I am confused about the 'Update your code' section:
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Is there a limit of emails/pictures per Gravatar account?
I'm building a site to connect patients to doctors. Each doctor will have a profile picture. I'm quite happy to manually maintain the profile pictures as there won't be that many doctors nor will they ...
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How to cache dynamic javascript/jquery/ajax/json content with Akamai
Trying to wrap my head around how things are cached on a CDN and it is new territory for me. In the document we received about sending in environment requests, it says "Dynamically-generated content ...
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CDN help, who should I go with and any alternatives?
I have a image hosting site which has grown rapidly over the last 3months and I feel I need to look at a CDN. The dedicated server the site runs on is located in Holland (Europe) whilst image load ...
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Can Amazon Cloudfront files be served GZIP'd?
If i'm running a WordPress website with the W3TC plugin installed, and have my static CSS/JS minified files hosted on Amazon's CDN, is there a way to serve them GZIP'd?
I have the basic understanding ...
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DNS lookup when using a CDN
Using a CDN can vastly improve the load time of a website. I been thinking of using it to host all my external files like CSS, JS, Images, Videos etc. However I was thinking when linking to a CDN, ...
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Significant drop in SERPs on 12th November 2011
Earlier this year I decided to have a look at the SEO of our website. We noticed almost immediately that we dropped significantly in the SERPs for the keyword 'probiotics' (plural) on the 12th ...
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Why do big sites host their images/css on external domains?
Why do big sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr & so on) host their images/css on external domains?
Facebook:
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/
Twitter:
http://a0.twimg.com
Google: ...
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CDN CNAMEs not resolving to customer origin
I have set up an Edgecast CDN to mirror all my static content. Because I use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my main site—using Google Analytics which sets cookies—I've stored the ...
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Is there a CDN for large files that doesn't need a manual upload?
I have a MaxCDN account. I am using their pull zones and it works perfectly (they autoamtically download .css, .js etc from my server)
Now I would like to use the cdn for large file too, but MaxCDN's ...
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Is the Bootstrap CSS on a CDN yet?
Just checking to see if anyone knows of a CDN for the bootstrap css framework.
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why is my site slower with amazons cdn?
so I have move most of the static objects to amazons Cloudfront CDN
example: http://images.storyfollower.com/images/cycleOfStories.jpg
which through cname point to the cdn
Now I just ran a speed ...
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Creating a CDN to boost page ranking?
I had a thought about CDNs and if they affect page rankings. Lets say hypothetically if I was to create a CDN as a subfolder in my site. This folder would contain a resource that is useful e.g. ...
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About cdn architecture to route way
Our web system, use the third-party cdn service.
Assume that the user set the local dns with the googledns or opendns to visit our web sites, so cdn service will select the closest cdn proxy node. ...
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How to keep a local copy of all images and still serve images from Amazon S3?
I'm using amazon s3 to host assets for my site (mainly images). At the moment when a user uploads an image via a form, the php script uploads the image directly to my bucket on s3.
I would like to ...
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Content Delivery Policy setup
I want to secure my website using a Content Security Policy. I'm came up with the following policy:
X-Content-Security-Policy: default-src https://www.example.com https://static.example.com; ...
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Reference single javascript file from many web applications
I have a javascript file (called secure.js that has several functions defined in it. I also have a Visual Studio solution with ten different ASP.NET web applications. I want to be able to call the ...
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What is the advantage to hosting static resources on a separate domain?
I notice a lot of sites host their resources on a separate domain from the main site, e.g. StackExchange using sstatic.net, Barnes & Noble using imagesbn.com, etc.
I understand that there are ...
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How does a CDN work on the tech side?
I never used a CDN before so this is a noob question, but how does it work on the tech side.
For example right now when a user uploads an image on my site it is uploaded to the "/uploads" folder at ...
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Is there any other CDN than Amazon which supports hadoop?
I need know about CDN which offers to store HDFS .
I know amazon offers such service but i am looking out if some others are giving some better service , additional features or cheaper service.
Please ...
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Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, etc as webfonts?
Does anyone know if the so called "web safe fonts" like Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet or Georgia are available as webfonts (that you can link to and safely use in your stylesheet) on a public CDN ...
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Do any CDN services offer multiple urls (or aliases) for your files?
Lets say a company has multiple commercial web properties that happen to use a lot of the same images on each site. For SEO reasons, the sites must not appear to be related to eachother in any way. ...
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Cloudflare in cpanel is it a no brainer?
I recently noticed Cloudflare cdn service add on in my cpanel. I understand what CDN is, but though it was a more complicated process than the one-click solution that seems to be offered in cpanel ...
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Google CDN or Akamai
We combine and minify our JS with Minify - the combined JS is then cached on Akamai. I'm suggesting to my supervisor that we put JQuery and JQueryUI on Google CDN and take it out of our combined JS.
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