Posted on Aug., 12th 2009
Making Our Website Faster: A Comparison of Cloud Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) with Cloud Storage, Cloud Hosting and Old-Fashioned Hosting
We are currently preparing a new setup for the hosting of www.paessler.com. Because visitors to our website are coming from all over the world we decided to host CSS, images and media files on a global content delivery network in order to provide a swift website experience for all visitors.
The advantage of using a CDN (Content Delivery Network, see wikipedia) is that website visitors will be served media files from the closest “edge-server” of the CDN and not from our own servers in the Rackspace data center in Dallas TX (the dynamic HTML would still be served from Dallas, though).
We have been using Amazon CloudFront CDN to deliver our software downloads for almost a year with excellent results. To find the best CDN provider for our upcoming website we set up accounts on selected CDN sites and selected hosting platforms. Then we monitored the performance from six locations around the globe.
Read more in the paessler.com blog.
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