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05-17-2014 01:16 PM #1 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)
Cdn that works with voluum and static landers

Please recommend a cdn that will allow me to upload html lander and images and css and works with Voluum. So http headers get passed.

05-17-2014 02:11 PM #2 yacht (Member)

rackspace is doing the job for me so far

05-17-2014 02:22 PM #3 kash50 (Member)

I am using MaxCDN without any issues.

05-17-2014 02:48 PM #4 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)

I signed up for maxcdn set a cname to the domain they gave me and uploaded html. It kept giving forbidden errors when i tried to load the html page and the tech couldnt help.

05-17-2014 03:18 PM #5 kash50 (Member)

Try purging all files on the CDN. It will be found under manage cache. See if that improve things.

05-17-2014 03:23 PM #6 jangilb (Member)

MaxCDN and CDN77 are great. Rackspace are reselling Akamai I believe.

05-17-2014 04:53 PM #7 atom64 ()

maxcdn !!!
you can easily use it like a dropbox for your files with direct links to them

05-17-2014 04:55 PM #8 kash50 (Member)

Agreed. I have tried them all and MaxCDN is by far the best one IMHO.

05-17-2014 06:00 PM #9 clubdrock (Member)

Rackspace CDN + cyberduck to upload files. Works great!

05-17-2014 08:32 PM #10 waltermitty (Senior Member)

Fuck rackspace until they support relative paths for both protocols.
I hate having 2 diff urls of the same file for HTTPS and HTTP.

05-17-2014 08:40 PM #11 satori (Member)

Just switched from Rackspace to MaxCDN.

05-17-2014 09:15 PM #12 impride (Member)

AWS should work

05-18-2014 03:49 AM #13 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by jangilb View Post
MaxCDN and CDN77 are great. Rackspace are reselling Akamai I believe.
Yup, but with far fewer PoPs and they don't tell you where they are... Akamai has the highest coverage on the planet and generally lowest latencies... but the Rackspace CDN won't perform as well. Sadly there seems to be minimal data out there for comparison.

Quote Originally Posted by waltermitty View Post
Fuck rackspace until they support relative paths for both protocols.
I hate having 2 diff urls of the same file for HTTPS and HTTP.
Yes, a pain in the ass.

I use Rackspace at the moment but mainly because I am only 99% of the time running HTTPS only links, find it easy to upload with Cyberduck (though it seems to have suddenly bugged out on me :S).

05-18-2014 05:18 AM #14 redrummr (Member)

MaxCDN is slow, if you are using them you are losing money.

I tested myself and confirmed suspicions via comparison tests done online. This was about a year ago, maybe they are faster now.

The one thing that has made the biggest difference for me was loading up a customised CSS file depending on device/resolution. Original CSS file for flog 150kb (including full fluency), now I run three separate ~50kb CSS files. You can apply similar logic to certain images being called or not called etc.

So, a bit of an aside, but just know that CDNs aren't the final solution - you need some human help if you want to be really lean.

The other CDNs listed in this thread aren't bad. Do your own searching, I don't think Voluum has trouble with any CDN.

05-18-2014 05:19 AM #15 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)

Im a bit confused. I want to host html file on cdn as well so i dont have to buy hosts in every continent.

05-18-2014 06:39 AM #16 fooder (Member)

I'm using rackspace cloud files with Voluum and it's working great. Haven't done any tests with the others yet though.

05-18-2014 07:19 AM #17 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)

^^^ do you host just the images/css files on CDN and your index.html on a separate hosting account? or you host all on the cdn and when you link campaigns in Voluum you link them to http://yourcdn.whatever.com/lander1/index.html

05-18-2014 07:28 AM #18 zeno (Administrator)

If you aren't using anything dynamic (read:not using PHP code), you can and should put the entire thing on a CDN.

The load time will decrease substantially vs hosting the page on your server + static content on a CDN, provided the user downloading the page is not extremely close to your server (in which case it can sometimes be faster to have it all on your server).

Serving static files is pretty easy in general so you will get the most efficient page serving by having servers/CDN nodes as close as possible to the user.

05-18-2014 07:32 AM #19 fooder (Member)

Everything is on the cdn. They have a handy static website option specifically for this.

05-18-2014 08:29 AM #20 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)

Thanks everyone, I am putting together an illustrated how to for others who are interested in hosting their LPs on CDN. Will post this later after its done.

05-18-2014 09:05 AM #21 redrummr (Member)

Some really good CDNs will not host html. Don't limit your options too much by getting caught up in that. Get a decent host with SSD in your main region, and use a CDN for the rest of the content. HTML shouldn't be more than a few KB for many pages...

05-29-2014 05:05 PM #22 sandip (Member)

What price plans did you guys find appropriate for MaxCDN? I'm just getting started in mobile...

05-29-2014 05:24 PM #23 waltermitty (Senior Member)

DNS - http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/
CDN - Amazon Cloudfront
HTML - WiredTree SSD

Without getting extremely fancy with load balancing for your html the above setup is pretty decent.

I actually prefer Rack Space cloud files for my CDN but they do not support protocol relative url's so I switched to Amazon Cloudfront.

05-29-2014 11:30 PM #24 Mr Baffoe (Veteran Member)

For anyone interested, I negotiated a 25% lifetime discount for all MaxCDN plans.

The link is on the resources page inside Prosper202 1.8.x+

It's also on this educational blog post http://prosper.tracking202.com/blog/...oad-35x-faster

05-30-2014 04:30 PM #25 caurmen (Administrator)

Just to briefly be contrarian here - I had a terrible experience with MaxCDN. Loads of other people have really good experiences with them, so I probably did something wrong or wasn't using them in an appropriate way, but do test your speeds after you install them.

05-30-2014 04:31 PM #26 iAmAttila (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by caurmen View Post
Just to briefly be contrarian here - I had a terrible experience with MaxCDN. Loads of other people have really good experiences with them, so I probably did something wrong or wasn't using them in an appropriate way, but do test your speeds after you install them.
i did as well, then i switched to rackspace, made a guide even for how to host landers for that, and am happy

05-30-2014 07:48 PM #27 bbrock32 (Administrator)

I did several split tests using various CDNs and not using any.

The difference is not huge and in some cases running straight from a US optimized server is even faster.

So I wouldn't get to stressed about using a CDN if you use a fast / powerful SSD server.

06-01-2014 11:57 AM #28 cosmeivan ()

Quote Originally Posted by caurmen View Post
Just to briefly be contrarian here - I had a terrible experience with MaxCDN. Loads of other people have really good experiences with them, so I probably did something wrong or wasn't using them in an appropriate way, but do test your speeds after you install them.
Me too, I just opened an account with RackSpace since I have seen MaxCDN performing really bad and sometimes the files won't load or were really slow.

I know RackSpace might not be using all the pops from Akamai, but certainly they have a lot more than MaxCDN.

btw, MaxCDN got me to the point to start hating re-targeting with those ridiculous ads everywhere even when I'm already a client....

06-01-2014 05:28 PM #29 clubdrock (Member)

If anyone wants to test out Rackspace for free, google: "Rackspace Developer Discount" . Get 6 months free (up to 50$a month which is a ton of traffic) no questions asked

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