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How to protect your CDN origin server 18 Mar 2013 | 11:58 pm
A website needs to be up & running at all times. In today's world, this means you need to be prepared for malicious attacks, possibly a DDoS attack, which is "an attempt to make a machine or network r...
Real-world CDN performance for Google DNS and OpenDNS users 19 Oct 2012 | 06:12 am
This is article 3 in a series of three blog posts. Two days ago we published Google DNS and OpenDNS usage stats and in yesterday's article we explained edns-client-subnet, gave an overview of which C...
Which CDNs support edns-client-subnet? 18 Oct 2012 | 01:34 am
This is article two in a series of three blog posts. Yesterday we published Google DNS and OpenDNS usage stats that we generated from the data of millions of end-user tests. Interesting as this is, t...
Google DNS, OpenDNS and CDN performance 17 Oct 2012 | 02:00 am
This is the first in a series of three blog posts. Google Public DNS and OpenDNS are free DNS resolvers that anybody can use on their computer to resolve a hostname (www.example.com) to an IP address...
A better CDN Finder 30 May 2012 | 02:09 am
The CDN Finder tool has been very popular since the day we launched it 6 months ago. It enables you to easily find out what CDN(s) a site is using or what CDN is behind a hostname. CDN Finder is easy ...
How to test your CDN before go live 2 May 2012 | 08:30 am
In this article I show a few ways to test CDN setups, changes in hosting, etc before sending real users to the new setup. Example scenario: example.com does not currently use a CDN. They serve their ...
Turbobytes: multi-CDN made easy 26 Apr 2012 | 01:48 pm
After months of hard work, we are proud to announce Turbobytes, the new and easy way of using multiple Content Delivery Networks for static object delivery. Turbobytes offers a multi-provider CDN plat...
Announcing the Cloudfront Purge Tool 24 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
The CDN Planet website runs in the Amazon cloud and we like it a lot. But there is one thing we bumped into some time ago that bothered us: you can't purge files from Amazon Cloudfront using the AWS c...
How to do an effective trial with a CDN 12 Jan 2012 | 05:19 am
When you are in the process of deciding which CDN to use, at some point in the selection process you will have a shortlist of 1, 2 or 3 CDNs that are serious candidates. These CDNs meet your key requi...
Initcwnd settings of major CDN providers 15 Nov 2011 | 11:32 am
Two weeks ago we published a blog post titled Tuning initcwnd for optimum performance that showed how tuning the initial congestion window parameter (initcwnd) on the server can have a significant imp...
