Posted by Trogdor at 12:35am Aug 9 '09Not sure how many would find this useful here but as a webmaster I found it real handy.
If you run your own website you'll know about bandwidth usage and how that can quickly rack up huge costs when your site gets hammered.
Most larger sites use a Content Distribution Network (CDN) like Amazon AWS and Akami. Unfortunately these CDNs usually cost extra on top of your regular hosting bill. For most of us they are out of our budget requirements.
Its been around for a while now but I have just started using the Coral CDN since it is free and has been getting a lot better now.
From their website:
Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, CoralCDN might be your free solution for these problems!
So I am now using it autumagically using mod_rewrite on some of my domains.
If anyone is interested I'd be happy to make the rewrite rules available here for all to use.
There are a few other ways to use it too.
If you want to manually do it for static files like icons, CSS and such just make the following changes:
- locate your link
http://4thkingdom.com/ic/ghm1.gif
- add .nyud.net
http://4thkingdom.com.nyud.net/ic/ghm1.gif
Success! That is all that is required. As people view pages they will see the image, as they see it it is being served via the CoralCDN. This will reduce the number of requests being made directly to the server.
This is the 4thkingdom hosted image
This is the CoralCDN image
At first view the CoralCDN file will take a bit longer to display as it is being pulled from this server then being served from the CoralCDN. After the first viewing it'll be much faster.
Four, you should totally set this up for your Icons and such, will lessen the bandwidth usage on your server. It has already saved me a lot of bandwidth in the three days I've had it up for.
If you run your own website you'll know about bandwidth usage and how that can quickly rack up huge costs when your site gets hammered.
Most larger sites use a Content Distribution Network (CDN) like Amazon AWS and Akami. Unfortunately these CDNs usually cost extra on top of your regular hosting bill. For most of us they are out of our budget requirements.
Its been around for a while now but I have just started using the Coral CDN since it is free and has been getting a lot better now.
From their website:
Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, CoralCDN might be your free solution for these problems!
So I am now using it autumagically using mod_rewrite on some of my domains.
If anyone is interested I'd be happy to make the rewrite rules available here for all to use.
There are a few other ways to use it too.
If you want to manually do it for static files like icons, CSS and such just make the following changes:
- locate your link
http://4thkingdom.com/ic/ghm1.gif
- add .nyud.net
http://4thkingdom.com.nyud.net/ic/ghm1.gif
Success! That is all that is required. As people view pages they will see the image, as they see it it is being served via the CoralCDN. This will reduce the number of requests being made directly to the server.
This is the 4thkingdom hosted image
This is the CoralCDN image
At first view the CoralCDN file will take a bit longer to display as it is being pulled from this server then being served from the CoralCDN. After the first viewing it'll be much faster.
Four, you should totally set this up for your Icons and such, will lessen the bandwidth usage on your server. It has already saved me a lot of bandwidth in the three days I've had it up for.
Link: Coral CDN
Coral CDN - Trogdor