Make your website faster using Content Delivery Network

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Jignesh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:25:50 GMT

Hi,you always fly higer & higher :)I regularly read your post and learn a lot.Thanks a lot Omar.

Keep it up. :)

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Mohit Madaan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:44:52 GMT

It's superb. I like your writing Omar... Thanks,

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Abhishek — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:58:49 GMT

Well... nice info, really

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Josh — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:36:47 GMT

Very nice article.

Reverse proxy solutions doesn't work for all web sites, but it sure speeds up file caching and delivery.

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nhm tanveer hossain khan (hasan) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:39:23 GMT

the easiest implementation could be, setting up reverse proxy on the local node. reverse proxy has more control over the content it caches(you can easily invalidate any cache, you can set cachable url pattern). so this could be applied for dynamic content as well with expire time from request header.

though this is bit different in streaming technology, but much easier solution exists. you can multicast your stream from local node. where local node maintains a single connection (or more for load balancing) to picking stream.

the advantage about CDN is the latency it reduces.

btw, don't u have any node herein BD?

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thatsme — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:42:48 GMT

this owesome..gave me a good idea about CDN..thanx

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spenser — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:49:23 GMT

Interesting.

The diagrams are superb.

Now, I am off to check some of the names you mentioned in your article. One that I had forgotten about is cachefly :)

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SimoneB — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:10:45 GMT

I guess you wanted to make things simpler, but it's not true that every request to your files is always handled by your server/s. There are many caching mechanisms which span local machines as well as intermediate servers. Then many organizations use proxy servers, hosting companies might present clustered or multiclustered acrhitectures, and so on.

Thus, many of your static files might not be retrieved from your original locations more than once. Caching is a vast topic, and CDNs seem to be the best solution just for websites which really need them, while cheaper and more maintainable alternatives are usually far better for most of the others.

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vikram — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:41:58 GMT

Thanks for the info. Was very good.

One advise, please do post a little faster. I really like your writing :-).