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Eat Your Own Dog Food – Amazon and Cloudfront

CDN Expert Staff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:16:04 +0000

I heard this phrase for the first time in a while just the other day and it made me think and wonder about Amazon – their web site, and their CDN CloudFront. When I held positions in both Product Management and Product Marketing. I would often hear the saying “we have to eat our own dog food”...

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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery Networks and Load Balancing (Part V): Dyn Inc’s CDN Manager

CDN Expert Staff — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:02:21 +0000

The other new company jumping into the Content Delivery Network arena is Dyn Inc. Dyn started out over 10 years ago providing home and small businesses users domain, email, and Internet infrastructure services (DynDNS), and over the last two years has been expanding their enterprise offering...

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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery Networks and Load Balancing (Part IV): Cotendo’s CDN Balancer

CDN Expert Staff — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:32 +0000

One of the new companies jumping into the Content Delivery Networking (CDN) arena is Cotendo. They are a fairly new CDN Service Provider and are solely focused on the CDN market. Cotendo's strategy is unique: break into the business by capturing some of Akamai’s market share in the Dynamic Content...

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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery Networks and Load Balancing (Part III) - Introduction to CDN Load Balancing

CDN Expert Staff — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:31:38 +0000

I first learned about CDN Load Balancing back in 2007, during my days with Limelight Networks. Back then, Limelight Networks sold a Load Balancing product that took the requests of end users and sent those requests to the various CDN’s that were part of the customer’s CDN delivery portfolio. This...

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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery Networks and Load Balancing (Part II) - One Pica Image CDN Extension to Magento

CDN Expert Staff — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:26:22 +0000

This post details the One Pica Image CDN extension to the Magento eCommerce platform. The One Pica Image CDN extension uses the first method of choosing between multiple CDN’s or CDN load balancing, which I call switching (refer to my previous blog post Introduction to Choosing Between Multiple...

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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery Networks and Load Balancing (Part I) - Bandcon's Content Networking Service

CDN Expert Staff — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:15:21 +0000

This post details Bandcon and their Content Networking service offering. Bandcon uses the load balancing method called switching (refer to my previous blog post Introduction to Choosing Between Multiple CDN’s and CDN Load Balancing for more details on load balancing techniques.) To provide...

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Choosing Between Multiple Content Delivery Networks and Load Balancing - The Introduction

CDN Expert Staff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:36:11 +0000

This blog post will detail four providers who have products and services focused on choosing between multiple Content Delivery Networks or load balancing between CDN’s. For years, many people with a deep knowledge of the Content Delivery Network industry (i.e. Dan Rayburn at StreamingMedia.com...

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Web Site Acceleration: All Content Delivery Networks Are Not the Same, Part 2

CDN Expert Staff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:24:55 +0000

In the first blog post in this series we talked about differing web acceleration architectures and their performance implications. But there’s a lot more to web site acceleration than just the architecture and its delivery. What about all the other aspects included that are needed to make web site...

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Web Site Acceleration: All Content Delivery Networks Are Not the Same, Part 1

CDN Expert Staff — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:12:25 +0000

Two of the most common questions I'm asked are: Aren’t all Content Delivery Network providers the same? And isn’t web site acceleration easy so all caching CDNs are the same? Those two statements couldn’t be further from the truth. Web site acceleration is a methodology for having content live on...

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Choosing a Content Delivery Network: Is RISK the most important factor?

CDN Expert Staff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:42:51 +0000

In all my years of selling Content Delivery Networking (CDN), I’ve heard many first questions from prospects: How many POP’s are in the network? Do you support this or that feature? How much is it for …? Can you tell me what makes your CDN different from this CDN? and many others. While...

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