(Help needed) Mobile Pops: CDN or VPS? (13)
Hi stackers!
I'm planning to run Mobile Pops, but I haven't gotten hosting yet for my landers,
And now I have the choice of either running VPS (Beyond Hosting) or CDN,
Which one is better, more recommended for someone who's starting out? (In terms of performance and cost wise)
I'm planning to focus and target cheap Geos like Asia, LATAM
If you can, go with CDN.. AWS Cloudfront for example. Then you can host your HTML, style, javascript and image files in S3 and use Cloudfront for CDN. It can and probably is cheaper than any VPS. Downside to it is that you can't execute PHP etc.
U won't need PHP as a newbie. CDN.
Hi Guys,
I have a big question for one of my pubs. He wants to host his landing pages and have these options for me, I was unable to give straight answer so want to know what Guru's have to say about it.
Here is the question ; " I want to host my landing pages for faster deployment cause of speed and quick turn around in launching a campaign on a VPS, I saw Amazon free AWS is available and digital ocean, what would you advise for hosting a landing page or what other service has worked best for you . Also do you know how speed is calculated on this server, cause I intend to be doing large volume of pops on them ? "
I will appreciate every response. Thanks 
If its a basic LP. so no PHP and such, go with CDN
You will still need a VPS for your tracker though
Originally Posted by presfox
In case of using a hosted tracker, it's really a good idea to use a CDN to host LPs. But as others have said, it's not possible to run server side scripts on CDN so it can become an issue.
CDNs are cheap, they can take tons of volume and they are fast... perfect combination for pops.
Hi Matuloo,
Please can you shed more light on CDN that landing pages can be hosted on, cause i know we use something like that for our website and there's no options to work with landing pages or any html, just the domain. Maybe you can help with some names or recommended CDN network to use and a howto video if any. Thanks
Any CDN's can work fine. I've used Cloudfront from AWS because I was heavily invested in S3 and Route53 (all AWS).
Since then I moved to a VPS so I can have server side scripts run on some php pages - something CDN's can't do.
Originally Posted by digitalraves
Definitely go with CDN
Go with a VPS like the VPS2048 with lite speed(I think the first couple of months you get like 50% off) and start running some traffic. Once you get a hang of it, buy like 20-30$ cdn a month and split test the landers...
This way you can answer your question and put this to rest. "Which one is better, more recommended for someone who's starting out?"
People will tell you conflicting information, they only way to find out is to test it yourself! This goes for most things in AM.
GL
One point worth noting: if you're running campaigns in the US or Western Europe, there is basically no speed difference between running a single VPS in the same continent and running a CDN. I've tested this fairly extensively.
In the mainland US, a well-peered, well-setup VPS is slightly faster than most CDNs, but it's on the order of 10ms so that's almost completely irrelevant.
CDNs only really become useful when you're outwith those areas, or if you don't want the hassle of running VPSes on several continents. However, at that point they're very useful indeed.
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