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Why don't you use CDN ? would you if it was free ?
While the benefits of using a CDN to speed up your website are well known for those who use it, it's still quite uncommon for the overall hosting users.
I wonder why is that!, is it that for most people it's too complicated to use ?, hard to understand or the additional cost ?
For those who don't use it, if it was given to you for free with your hosting package or VPS, would you use it ? would you take the time to edit your website to take advantage of it ?
Seems to me that the vast majority of users actually don't even know such product exists, and yes most sites might not warrant the extra cost, but if it was free ?.
Carlos
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I'm confused. Okay.
CloudFlare / Encapsula, many many people are using them, both free and paid plans.
More often than not there isn't much use unless you have a massive website or are distributing files, that's just my opinion anyway.
I only use cloudflare for the analytics, and so i don't have to insert google analytics code on each page...
Correct, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the addressable market, I wonder if it's a matter of people not understanding it / knowing about it or pricing
CDN's are overkill for the vast majority of sites.
Many site owners also wouldn't pay for the development time needed to switch a site over to a CDN.
And yes, I did make a CDN free to use for people; it had very little adoption.
CDN can speed up the site. I would use it if it's fast enough.
If it's done properly (geo located to the users location) otherwise there's no point..
Indeed, otherwise it's not really doing whats suppose to
The pay-as-go-grow scheme confusing and the fixed price per month looks overkill.
CDN really improving site speed. Bet you all use hosted library by Google or Microsoft for jquery etc thats speed up the load.
It would be great if there is free CDN for SMALL static content (css,js).
I don't really think that cloudflare and incapsula as CDN, they more like reserve proxy specialist. Get maxcdn or any CDN only product.
For general static website files, css, javascript etc, there isn't much point, just use Google API's for it.
However if your website for whatever reason has lots of picture uploads or user content etc, then a CDN might be worth it for fast loading of images, large or small from different countries around the world. Amazon CloudFront is a good example of this.
I just don't use because i host content for the latin america and there are just a few providers with servers here, and their price is so expensive that small projects usually dont have the budget for that.
I rather just choose a provider with a good network towards my target audiance. Maybe a CDN would be nice for streaming purposes? but as far i know a CDN usually only consists about serving websites and it's static assets, no realtime data streams or anything else.
No, thats not true, CDN is also for streaming (for those providers/pops that support it), including Live streaming.
For streaming, who can beat YouTube
what about non-web related files? example: .exe, .dll, .zip, etc? do CDN's mirror all files from the original server or just web related ones? this really confuses me as the term CDN isn't widely defined with all features that come with it. maybe its provider depending?
You can choose by extensions, file size or just some subdomains. It all depends on your website/file structure and purpose.
my understanding of a cdn is that it just mirrors all files from the original server and serve it to the visitors using servers in multiple countrys - atleast, that's what I would expect it to do. there is nothing defined on the term CDN and its pretty unknown to anyone who doesn't deepen themselfs into the technical world. It would be nice if there was some kind of standard so we can expect things before buying.
Gzip, cache and cloudflare on my cdn domain works fine very little effort
You will need big tunnel for more effort
LOL
Its really not important to have those types of files in multiple locations, it doesn't really rely on latency.
@zare I think he is thinking for larger files pulling them from local servers would be faster than say a visitor in asia downloading from a US server etc rather than low latency connections.
cloudflare left cookies and custom headers from origin, cache not work correctly
That's for non cdn sites
I wanna deliver those files at a fast speed, latency obviously plays a big role in this.
for those who want to get full experience with CDN:
10TB Free CDN promo
thank me later ;p
The 10TB bandwidth expires December 31st, just FYI.
We're migrating from EdgeCast to Hibernia CDN actually. They are much faster and I love their Portal.
Having known Hiberia via ColoCrossing's peering (Hai @Jbiloh!), I feel comfortable using their CDN.
CDN website that uses cloudfront? I'm not an expert but...
I personally don't like sharing the requests of my website with any other company/person (from a privacy point of view). In addition, I am convinced of minimal design to not even need any CDN to serve my bloated 30 javascripts faster
After all, keeping your website nice and clean I think for almost all of the personal websites there is no need for a CDN.
They could be using it for the DDoS protection..