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CDN Content Delivery Network - Worth it?

by WebTekMedia
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Hey guys, my site is currently getting ~1000 clicks a day and converting well. Great.

We'd like to turn the volume up, to about 10,000 clicks a day. And I"m wondering about getting a CDN turned on.

Is it worth it, or should I just have the one server with like, 16 gigs of ram, 8 cores, 1000 mbps port speed?
#cdn #content #delivery #network #worth
  • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
    I've been very satisfied with Rackspace Cloud Sites, and I found a way to host with them for only US$5/month. (Not an affiliate link; just happy to spread the word.) As I've been developing AboutTh.is, I don't need to use much of their firepower yet, (half a trillion hits per year), but any future traffic spikes will simply get delivered from additional servers as needed.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveSRS
    Heck yes! I used to have a setup with Galera Mysql to serve to same site on several hosting locations but this was slow due to Galera (and not to mention not very stable).

    I switched to a faster hosting + MaxCDN and my site is flying like never before! I can def recommend it. Do some research though.. not all CDN's are created equally!
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    Thanks pal. Each user has to do a zip code search through 300,000 rows.

    Never done this before, so I'm not sure what CPU requirements I should put forward. Time will tell.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
    So just index on that column. There's no reason to plow through that kind of work for every search.
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