CDN hosting?

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Anyone use a CDN for their hosting?

CDN's are the most reliable and speedy hosting services in the world. (They host the live video streams for the NCAA tournament, etc)

Someone at limelight network contacted me and wants me to use their service, however I don't think I need the service.

Some CDN's have pricing from $20/month-$1,000+/month

The argument against CDN's for affiliate site hosting is that there really isn't much content that needs to be delivered, making remote hosting reliable almost always.

Anyway, just looking for your opinion on experiences with CDN's. Thanks.

List of CDN's I researched-

Limelight Network
Edgecast
Voxel
Level3
Internap

[CDN] = Content Delivery Network (Companies with a network of data centers that allow content to be delivered closer to the consumer. Thus, usually faster load times)
 


I use Amazon Cloudfront. No monthly fees, and their transfer fees are pretty good. You basically upload files into their S3 file hosting service, then tell them to serve specific folders on their CDN. They'll give you a new URL where you can access your files through the CDN.
 
I'm sure softlayer have on too, Geo CDN and it's got good rates. Gotta be a customer of theirs already to buy it though :z
 
Amazon self serve is a great solution to get started with for a CDN. We now use Edgecast. They're cheaper and better for the volume we serve. But if you just need a small solution go with amazon as you can be setup in minutes and don't have to sign any long term contracts.
 
7figures said:
I use Amazon Cloudfront. No monthly fees, and their transfer fees are pretty good. You basically upload files into their S3 file hosting service, then tell them to serve specific folders on their CDN. They'll give you a new URL where you can access your files through the CDN.
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seconded, and as they said. cloudfront is an easy way to get up and running with a cdn fast.
 
CDN Are defenetly awesome and way better then the normal hosting

I used Limelight over a year and its superb, pricey but awesome
but mainly cdns are used for VIDEO content not hosting pages.
 
wick3d said:
CDN Are defenetly awesome and way better then the normal hosting

I used Limelight over a year and its superb, pricey but awesome
but mainly cdns are used for VIDEO content not hosting pages.
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You are wrong, your spelling is laughable and you are a retard.
 
gopher said:
You are wrong, your spelling is laughable and you are a retard.
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other than large file sharing and videos, why would someone use a CDN other than for hosting a html page? CDN's are used to decrease latency and download times because it pushes the content closer to the end-users specific location so when they access the content it is faster (ie faster download for large files or good quality steaming for videos). other than that I don't know why someone would use CDN for normal web pages, at least at this point in time.

please enlighten me with your knowledge.
 
Leprekon said:
other than large file sharing and videos, why would someone use a CDN other than for hosting a html page? CDN's are used to decrease latency and download times because it pushes the content closer to the end-users specific location so when they access the content it is faster (ie faster download for large files or good quality steaming for videos). other than that I don't know why someone would use CDN for normal web pages, at least at this point in time.

please enlighten me with your knowledge.
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Nah, couldn't be bothered the first time I read his mess of a post and won't bother now.

I'll just point out that "other than large file sharing and videos, why would someone use a CDN other than for hosting a html page?" doesn't quite man what you think it does.

Unless you like contradicting yourself.
 
Images, javascript, css, videos, any static file will be served faster on a CDN. HTML stays on your own server.
 
Leprekon said:
other than large file sharing and videos, why would someone use a CDN other than for hosting a html page? CDN's are used to decrease latency and download times because it pushes the content closer to the end-users specific location so when they access the content it is faster (ie faster download for large files or good quality steaming for videos). other than that I don't know why someone would use CDN for normal web pages, at least at this point in time.

please enlighten me with your knowledge.
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CDN's will cut down on response time for downloading static files, especially for international traffic. Downloading files from halfway across the world takes a long time no matter how fast your connection is - load time has a big impact on bounce rate. Not only that, if you're doing alot of volume it only makes sense to have servers designed for mass file hosting do the job rather than one shitty little dedi. I recommend Cloudfront also.
 
Using a CDN also increases the threads available to download the assets, "IE and Firefox by default restrict users to 6 connections total and 2 connections per host for HTTP 1.1 connections", if you have quite a few large images on the page this can slow you down.
 
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