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Suggestions to make sure that CDN POPs always hold the files
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Suggestions to make sure that CDN POPs always hold the files

jhjh Member
edited May 2016 in Help

Our whole website is behind a CDN. It works well but we have few visitors from some locations that we want to target (e.g. Australia, Hong Kong). The CDN has POPs there but since traffic from there is so low, search engines and visitors often have to wait for the content to arrive from a nearby POP anyway. We have already set caches high but content is refreshed sometimes limiting what we can do with this.

Can anyone recommend a cheap/easy way of calling a site frequently from lots of locations? We have monitoring with Nodeping but I believe they only use 1 POP unless the check fails. Another that rotates the POPs (and has AU, HK etc.) and costs very little for one website might be best.

Comments

  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

    How about using a push CDN not pull CDN?

  • MunMun Member

    You can purchase a VPN / VPS in those locations and pull via wget or curl the files you want active on the cdn.

  • doghouchdoghouch Member
    edited May 2016

    @SplitIce said:
    How about using a push CDN not pull CDN?

    MaxCDN does a decent job of hosting files (push zones) - pretty sure that @BunnySpeed has it too :)

  • BunnySpeedBunnySpeed Member, Host Rep
    edited May 2016

    @doghouch said:

    @SplitIce said:
    How about using a push CDN not pull CDN?

    MaxCDN does a decent job of hosting files (push zones) - pretty sure that @BunnySpeed has it too :)

    Sure we do, but it's not in the UI yet.. he he heh..

    @jh You could try automating something like this to run the tests from different locations: https://tools.keycdn.com/speed Though as @doghouch said most CDNs support some kind of content preloading. If it's not in the dashboard you should check the API or contact their support maybe.

  • jhjh Member

    Thanks for the suggestions. A push CDN would be good in the long term but would require too many changes now. I discovered that Nodeping does allow a location to be specified in the API (not in the GUI) so I created ~20 monitors in Nodeping.

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