Fastest CDN? (9)
What's the fastest cdn? Most people here use Amazon Cloudfront, but hear CF is on the slow side compared to other cdn's like beyondhosting's.
Bump. Even i am looking for answers on the same. Which one's is most recommended?
It's a bad question because it's built on an annoying premise, that you should be statically hosting your landing pages and that the relationship between conversion performance and load-speed somehow supersedes all the other factors involved in arbing inventory.
I don't mean to come off as abrasive, BTW, I am just trying to illustrate the fact that the value-add you gain by optimizing one CDN vs another CDN is extremely small compared to almost anything else you could be doing. Test another landing page you find on whatever traffic spy tool is good for your vertical, try some new targeting options on your campaigns; trying anything besides split-testing CDNs will have a higher chance of adding value.
There is no such thing as the fastest CDN, it depends on many factors, the main one being user location. Akamai have the largest network and are arguably the best overall, but you don't get to use their entire network, period, they are not a self-service CDN (there are resellers that have access to a portion of their network).
The potential improvmenets from single server > CDN will be much greater for geographically dispersed traffic than the potential improvements from CDN 1 > CDN 2.
Use CloudFront and S3, or CloudFlare, then worry about changing CDNs when you are spending $100,000 a day outside the US and Western Europe.
Moved to the subforum about CDNs.
Originally Posted by zeno
If anyone here is interested in using Akamai and is spending at least $1k+ per month on another CDN, feel free to PM me.
What I mean to say is that if you do go through a reseller, which is much more cost effective at lower levels, you very likely only access a portion of the PoPs.
If you go direct you certainly will access them all. But you have to be driving substantial volumes to be spending $1k a month on a CDN (ignoring doing video delivery for example), so I would say using Akamai, CDNetworks is not normal for most affiliates.
If you really want to optimize at the CDN level sign up for http://www.cedexis.com/
You could also build your own latency based routing using a service like https://ns1.com/ ***NOTE*** that this is NOT what most DNS providers pitch as "geo rule routing" which is really garbage.
However, either of those solutions is probably cost prohibitive in this business of making 0.0005 on an ad impression.
Use google as a CDN. Save money. They have servers all over the world and not sure why not everyone is doing this. It is FREE. Why do people pay for Amazon when you can get the same quality for free? I just do not understand it. I am under the impression due to there fast search all around the world that they have some of the best servers all over the world. So just take advantage of it.
I am not trying to steal someone elses hard work or reinvent the wheel. Just search google drive as a CDN. Plenty of stuff wrote on it.
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