Server Speed vs cdn..

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Hello guys I am using the amazon cloudfront Cdn and it seems to actually slow my site down in Europe...The server loads the whole site in <150MS direct while cdn needs 300 MS-900MS with even spikes sometimes everyday going to 1+ sec.... is amazon cloudfront cdn shit?? if so what cdn is good to use? I am an affiliate marketer(performance marketer)... so my infrastructure and the speed of it is very important to be because of the heavy correlation between conversion rate + Loading speed... I know it reduces the load on my server but I want speed also!
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  • I don't have much experience with amazon cdn, but some general questions might help to determine the problem .

    1. Are you comparing download of same files when you say whole site is <150ms and cdn is 900ms ?
    Or are those different files . i.e. your site can weight 10kb and your files in cdn 10mb . We need to compare apples with apples.

    2. How big is your traffic in terms requests per second ?
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    • 1. I am comparing the same files loading speed on the same page on the site...
      So whole page loads <150 MS using my server directly
      I get 300ms-2.5sec on loading speed using the amazon cdn when delivering the same page...2.5sec is something new Ive seen today...

      2. I ain't running traffic yet trying to optimize my infrastructure before I start buying traffic... Since I want to have a perfect infrastructure.... So I won't have to many people leaving because slow loading speeds.... to get the maximum ROI on the traffic I buy...
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  • BTW whats your structure, aka where are you hosting your server and who are you serving?
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    • I am hosting with linode at London UK/England..
      I am planning to serve the EU and... Asia.. but the performance of cloudfront is even worse in asia... although my server performance isn't top notch either... but I am depending on a cdn for asia.. and if the performance is any good I want to depend on it for EU also just to take the load of the server
  • Try a test with Softlayer. You may be better served with a second VPS server to serve content instead of a CDN.
    Also remember the other half of the CDN equation is about minimizing local server load. Sometimes the tradeoff in speed is well worth the durability of purpose. You could also just put the nasty big slow files on the cdn.
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    • Can I ask you if softlayer allows full page caching? cause that is what I am looking for
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  • we are using MaxCDN and it's great, no delay or anyhing, saves us bandwidh, depends on how big image is
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    • maxcdn requires me to contact to sales team for full page caching I dunno how much they will charge but I ain't expecting anything pretty
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    Server Speed vs cdn..

    Hello guys I am using the amazon cloudfront Cdn and it seems to actually slow my site down in Europe...The server loads the whole site in <150MS direct while cdn needs 300 MS-900MS with even spikes sometimes everyday going to 1+ sec.... is amazon cloudfront cdn shit?? if so what cdn is good to use? I am an affiliate marketer(performance marketer)... so my infrastructure and the speed of it is very important to be because of the heavy correlation between conversion rate + Loading speed... I know it reduces the load on my server but I want speed also!