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on April 21, 2009
Update 10: The Value of CDNs by Mike Axelrod of Google. Google implements a distributed content cache from within large ISPs . This allows them to serve content from the edge of the network and save bandwidth on the ISPs backbone.
Update 9: Just Jump: Start using Clouds and CDNs . Bob Buffone gives ...
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on July 23, 2012
CDNs ( content delivery networks ) are the secret shadow super powers behind the web and Dan Rayburn at streamingmedia.com is the go to investigative reporter for quality information on CDNs. Every year Dan has a Content Delivery Summit on all things CDN and those videos are now available . Dan also ...
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on September 26, 2007
If you have a lot of static content to store and you aren't looking forward to setting up and maintaining your own giganto SAN, maybe you can push off a lot of the hard lifting to a CDN?
Jesse Robbins at O'Reilly Radar posts that you have a lot more options now because the number of Content Distrib ...
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on October 1, 2009
You go through the expense of installing CDNs all over the globe to make sure users always have a node close by and you notice something curious and furious: clients still experience poor latencies. What's up with that? What do you do to find the problem?
If you are Google you build a tool (WhyHigh ...
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on August 7, 2007
Playing like the big boys may be getting cheaper. The big boys, like YouTube , farm the serving of their most popular videos to a third party CDN. A lot of people were surprised YouTube didn't serve all their content themselves, but it makes sense. It allows them to keep up with demand without a lar ...
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on July 30, 2007
Akamai transparently mirrors content (usually media objects such as audio, graphics, animation, video) stored on customer servers. Though the domain name is the same, the IP address points to an Akamai server rather than the customer's server.
In addition to image caching, Akamai provides services ...
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on May 19, 2008
Hi,
I was wondering if I could borrow the collective minds of you all to draw up a list to the CDN's that you'd use/do use in the UK. If they're outside the UK but have decent support then also include. The service must be cheap and not require a huge setup fee, it's really only for a small time bus ...
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on August 18, 2011
Update : as of the end of Q2 2011, Akamai had 95,811 servers deployed globally.
Akamai is the CDN to the stars. It claims to deliver between 15 and 30 percent of all Web traffic, with major customers like Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and the US military. Traditionally quite secretive, we get a pee ...
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on March 5, 2008
A lot of new internet TV station startups are in the wind these days and there's a question about how they can scale their broadcasts. Today's state of the art shows you can't yet mimic the reach of broadcast TV with internet tech. But as Oprah proves, you can still capture a lot of eyeballs, if you ...
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on January 1, 2008
All,
I'm just new to this and have a basic understanding how CDN works? My questions are:
1. How does CDN sync data with web servers for video/images? If I have a user to upload a video to my site, will it get stored directly in CDN or it comes to my webserver first and then sync-ed with cache ser ...
