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What's the best CDN? (16)

03-22-2013 05:54 AM #1 creathinker (Member)
What's the best CDN?

Hey guys,

Like the title on my thread, I don't understand much about CDN.. I just know it's Content Delivery Network and make your page loading faster.. lol.. Actually how CDN work so make our page loading faster?

I didn't use CDN yet, and another affiliates says their ROI increase when using CDN.. so I would use this one..

What's the best CDN right now?

I read the falcon tutorial about CDN here http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...l=1#post100955

should I use Max CDN or another best CDN?

Thanks..

03-22-2013 06:19 AM #2 sandyone (Member)

Can one host with one company but use another's CDN?

03-22-2013 06:22 AM #3 creathinker (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by sandyone View Post
Can one host with one company but use another's CDN?
from that the falcon post, so it can be..

03-22-2013 06:29 PM #4 caurmen (Administrator)

A CDN is a Content Delivery Network. Basically, it's a specialised network of servers around the world that host your images, CSS and other content that doesn't change, and (in theory) deliver it fast to viewers all over the world.

You can indeed host with one company and use another company's CDN - indeed, that's how you'd do it most of the time.

Are they useful for affiliate marketers? It depends. The primary use of a CDN is if you're getting traffic from all over the world, and thus can't have a server in a single country that will serve up data fast to everyone who's arriving at your site. I've used CDNs on sites like that in the past, and they're very useful indeed.

If you know which country or even continent you're getting all your traffic from, however (as you will in 95% of all cases in affiliate marketing), my experience is that a CDN will very rarely beat just having a server either in that country or a couple of network hops away. If I was running a German campaign, for example, I wouldn't run a server in the US with a CDN - I'd just get a VPS in germany and run everything from there.

Having said that, I'm prepared to be proved wrong on that point - indeed, I feel a case study coming on...

As for recommended CDNs - the one I've heard recommended several times for speed is Max CDN. I definitely wouldn't recommend using the Amazon CDN or anything that uses Amazon's storage - it's just not that fast.

03-22-2013 07:46 PM #5 allthegold (Member)

I've run tests with Beyond's CDN and it beat MaxCDN in speed, but they don't support push zones so it's basically impossible to build your pages without a ton of long and ugly hardlinks.

03-22-2013 08:37 PM #6 itzbert (Member)

Edgecast, RackSpace CloudFiles is an alternative. I'm not a fan of MaxCDN

03-22-2013 09:18 PM #7 nyc (Member)

I'm not a fan of MaxCDN, with the experience ive had with authority sites. What CDNs do you guys use?

03-22-2013 10:56 PM #8 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by allthegold View Post
I've run tests with Beyond's CDN and it beat MaxCDN in speed, but they don't support push zones so it's basically impossible to build your pages without a ton of long and ugly hardlinks.
If you don't plan to ever change your zones we can manually configure them.

Our current CDN provider (level3) does not offer a very flexible api yet so we are limited. However its EXTREMELY fast and our origin is setup to serve files fast so its just extra headache.

Thanks for the test.

03-23-2013 10:25 AM #9 caurmen (Administrator)

Right, there's nothing for it - I'll have to do a benchmark of the top CDNs and report back

Expect it in a month or two!

03-28-2013 05:40 AM #10 creathinker (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by nyc View Post
I'm not a fan of MaxCDN, with the experience ive had with authority sites. What CDNs do you guys use?
bump.. I have same question with nyc.. I can't use MaxCDN because they mark my country as fraud.. lol.. Sometimes I hate internet marketer on my country because lot of fraud..

03-28-2013 07:16 AM #11 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by creathinker View Post
bump.. I have same question with nyc.. I can't use MaxCDN because they mark my country as fraud.. lol.. Sometimes I hate internet marketer on my country because lot of fraud..
Why not email/phone them to sort this out? I'm sure it's probably just your IP/geo flagging you as a high risk country, nothing getting on the phone cant solve.

03-28-2013 07:23 AM #12 joejoechen (Member)

rackspace has been easy for me

03-28-2013 08:34 AM #13 creathinker (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
Why not email/phone them to sort this out? I'm sure it's probably just your IP/geo flagging you as a high risk country, nothing getting on the phone cant solve.
They said it can't be any solution for this issue, because they settled it on their system. I already to reach them intentionally

03-28-2013 12:10 PM #14 caurmen (Administrator)

Rackspace's CDN is getting a lot of love in another thread on this subject - try that out and see how you do.

04-05-2013 08:41 AM #15 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

rackspace cloud files is awesome so far...they are connected to the akamai cdn so the have servers in many countries..tried amazon cloudfront and maxcdn before

04-05-2013 01:32 PM #16 Smaxor (Veteran Member)

I know MaxCDN supports SSL. Not sure if the others do.

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