CDNs - I've lost the plot!!

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One of my blogs was pulled last week for too much load on the server, not for the first time and one of my other blogs has had the same problem and I'm expecting it on some of the others sometime soon.

I was advised to use W3 Total Cache and agreed to that before they put it back online. Instead of speeding the site up it got excruciatingly slow and visits dropped from over 1000 a day to less than 20 according to awstats and analytics.

So I figured that I hadn't set W3 up right and found a tutorial. It goes on about CDNs and this guy self hosts. I googled CDNs and I am still pretty clueless as to what they are and what to do. Can anybody explain in simple terms please?

Also I'm using a reseller account that will reach the point where I will have to upgrade during the next few months because traffic has been increasing on all of my sites. Would moving to dedicated hosting help solve the problems?
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  • Well, first off congrats on a problem everybody WANTS lol!

    If you're getting that kind of traffic where your host is pulling your sites first and asking questions later, then yeah... I'd look into a dedicated server. And you shouldn't let that intimidate you either because there are services available that all they do is manage dedicated servers for people/businesses that don't want to, (or don't know how to).

    OR.. you could simply move to another host that is more equipped to handle heavier load sites. A host that understands "load balancing"; Liquid Web is a good one.

    CDN = Content Delivery Network; Amazon S3 is one.

    Basically the idea is to move the "load" to the "cloud"; as opposed to the server leveraging the loads.

    HTH
    PLP,
    tecHead
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    • Thanks, it's happened a few times now to 2 of my blogs. Comment spamming was one cause and what looked to be a content scraper getting stuck was another. This time it seems to be just a high amount of traffic, there was nothing in the error logs, though another of my blogs gets 4 times the traffic with no problems so far.

      mmm moving the load to the cloud. I just don't understand what that means and don't want to mess up.
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  • Wow! That's crazy! How does Hostgator do at handling this issue?
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    • They take the site down until you sort something out. They are quick to respond once you get back to them but if it happens and you don't find out for hours you are stuffed.

      A friend is talking me through how to self host the 'cloud' later today. I really don't understand when I start reading about content delivery networks so it's one step at a time.
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    CDNs - I've lost the plot!!

    One of my blogs was pulled last week for too much load on the server, not for the first time and one of my other blogs has had the same problem and I'm expecting it on some of the others sometime soon. I was advised to use W3 Total Cache and agreed to that before they put it back online. Instead of speeding the site up it got excruciatingly slow and visits dropped from over 1000 a day to less than 20 according to awstats and analytics.