tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post6224829914924335821..comments2023-05-26T04:28:47.893-04:00Comments on Performance Matters: Exciting new CDN (MaxCDN)Patrick Meenanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16482126817753317557noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-51537049823786062072010-12-06T20:41:59.516-05:002010-12-06T20:41:59.516-05:00We do support URL Signing for select clients. And...We do support URL Signing for select clients. And we now offer quick and easy integration with several CMS platforms, through our<br />Wordpress CDN - http://www.maxcdn.com/wordpress-cdn/<br />Joomla CDN - http://www.maxcdn.com/features/integrations/joomla-cdn/<br />Drupal CDN - http://www.maxcdn.com/features/integrations/drupal-cdn/<br />Magento CDN - http://www.maxcdn.com/features/integrations/magento-cdn/<br />vBulletin CDN - http://www.maxcdn.com/features/integrations/vbulletin-cdn/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11900546563799023954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-11406394830932896942010-10-06T00:59:17.977-04:002010-10-06T00:59:17.977-04:00Do you support URL Signing?Do you support URL Signing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-66859690859182372432010-03-18T18:22:40.585-04:002010-03-18T18:22:40.585-04:00James- you're right about dropping a session d...James- you're right about dropping a session during a routing change. There are ways to handle that however, and that's the secret sauce that MaxCDN has enabled with Mzima.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-72390849435940480842010-03-10T14:19:19.071-05:002010-03-10T14:19:19.071-05:00Hello,
We do offer SSL. There is a setup fee and m...Hello,<br />We do offer SSL. There is a setup fee and monthly fee involved with it however. You can email us at sales@maxcdn.com to get information on this.Billy Vierrahttp://www.maxcdn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-47622820156415633102010-03-07T12:43:53.676-05:002010-03-07T12:43:53.676-05:00HTTPS is REALLY painful to stand up on a CDN. It&...HTTPS is REALLY painful to stand up on a CDN. It's bad enough for dedicated hosting that you need a fixed IP for every domain because of how the certs work but in a CDN you need a ffixed IP per domain at every one of the POP's and you have to instaall the cert on them all too.Patrick Meenanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16482126817753317557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-23857038779848768352010-03-06T18:52:55.527-05:002010-03-06T18:52:55.527-05:00No HTTPS support :(No HTTPS support :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-20478711309332376272010-02-23T06:36:11.521-05:002010-02-23T06:36:11.521-05:00That is my understanding. They may refresh more o...That is my understanding. They may refresh more often than that, particularly if something gets aged out of the cache for not being hit in a while but it wouldn't be any longer than the expiration.<br /><br />From their zone config settings:<br /><br /><br /><br />The default caching time is 1 day (24 hours) for all file types.<br />It will respect the 'Cache Control' header from your Origin Server if the 'Cache Control' header is present.<br /><br />If you need any further custom edge caching settings, please Contact Us.Patrick Meenanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16482126817753317557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-8811565971318421142010-02-23T04:38:08.879-05:002010-02-23T04:38:08.879-05:00How often is the content refreshed from the origin...How often is the content refreshed from the origin? Is it refetched according to the expiration headers of the response from the origin server?Magnus O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06670009710471085008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-21380402899375417582010-02-20T21:28:14.271-05:002010-02-20T21:28:14.271-05:00Thanks for the info, the presentation was great. ...Thanks for the info, the presentation was great. Yeah, I expect the exclusive use of Mzima is to help with the stability of the routing and bgp announcements.<br /><br />As with everything there are tradeoffs. Http requests for page-type content is probably the best case scenario where the connections aren't really active for that long and if they get interrupted between requests it just moves on with a new connection. Large downloads increase the risk.Patrick Meenanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16482126817753317557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-537292020947772033.post-45364190879222021222010-02-20T20:16:11.667-05:002010-02-20T20:16:11.667-05:00MaxCDN does look interesting, especially consideri...MaxCDN does look interesting, especially considering their aggressive pricing. But they aren't the first CDN to use anycast, I believe that distinction goes to CacheFly back in 2002. The risk of this approach is that a routing change will land you in a different POP in the middle of a TCP session. Depending on the stability of the CDN's network and the size of the files you're serving the failure rate may not be an issue. I'm curious if MaxCDN's exclusive use of Mzima is to maximize routing stability.<br /><br />There is some interesting data on the stability of anycast for this application in a 2006 NANOG presentation:<br /><br />http://www.nanog.net/meetings/nanog37/presentations/matt.levine.pdfJames Byershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614527370994969228noreply@blogger.com