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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Where does content distribution network come into picture for youtube
I have vaguely heard of CDNs (Content Distribution Network) and I suppose they come into picture in context of multimedia(audio/video) online sites like youtube. My question is what really are these ...
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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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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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How to make CloudFlare cache everything?
I want CloudFlare to cache everything, PHP files too, every request from the domain,
I want it to cache it.
Is this possible?
(There are PHP scripts on the domain that print out images, JS and CSS, ...
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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 Google Page Speed Service a competitor for CDN services
I've been googling around for a cheap CDN service and came across: http://code.google.com/speed/pss/index.html
This seems to be a competitor to other CDN services, is this the case?
Thanks
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What is the difference between CDN networks and which one is the best out there?
I run a popular site for which I would like to use a CDN network. So far I have found NetDNA since it is easier to setup with W3 Total Cache plugin.
There is Rackspace Couldfiles and Amazon. But ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to update DNS Zone for a static domain
I am running this site: www.thetechnofreaks.com on Wordpress.
Recently I came across a plugin that claims to increase the page load efficiency of my site. the plugin details can be found here: ...
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Using CDN vs having your own static server, and how it's done?
I would like to speed up my site and am considering moving all static files and user uploaded content to a separate server. I have an option to use a CDN or to setup my own static server and serve ...
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Whole site caching on MediaTemple's ProCDN - cname setup
Am unable to properly configure ProCDN to point to my website's root.
I have a completely static website: http://thaifood-recipes.com no PHP, MySQL, etc. Just static HTML, images, CSS, etc.
I have ...
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Use a CDN to handle UGC uploads
I was on the phone with a sales guy from Akamai and he mentioned that they offer a service that can handle user generated content uploads (videos in our case) to their edge network.
Unfortunately, ...
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Do CDNs work with POST operations?
I'm using a CDN (Level3) for the first time and I'm a bit confused. I'm accessing dynamic URLs such as http://cdn.mysite.com?getItem=1234 that return text data.
Do CDNs work with HTTP POST ...
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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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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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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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Most immediate CDN
I'm interested in the user experience effects of a near-instantly loading home page.
Are there CDNs specifically designed to serve tiny data, like a 500-byte HTML page, to the browser as fast as ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Can parking a domain on my primary domain have an effect on primary domain's SEO?
My Question is this:
I have a primary domain (assume it's domain.com).
Now I parked domain-static.com on domain.com.
The idea is that static content (images, JS, CSS) is served from ...
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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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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 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 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 ...
