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At CacheFly, we believe that our small team, working together, with great technology, can make a bigger impact to our customers than any other company on earth.
CacheFly Supports World Central Kitchen
Over the last 15 years at CacheFly, we have uncovered a common thread that weaves us all together. We love to break bread together as a family because that's what our team is. When we have our corporate retreat, our fondest memories are of cooking breakfast together....
Massive Growth in South America
2020 has been a record-breaking year for CacheFly. We have completed significant network expansion in the first quarter, primarily focusing on South America. Since this time last year, CacheFly has added 6 PoPs in South America. Our expansion has allowed us to serve...
CacheFly Adds Peering
CacheFly has always peered globally but has avoided peering within the US, and for a good reason. Even in the early 2000s, peering points were slow areas of congestion as the fabric was easily oversubscribed, and the first generation of CDNs was created to circumvent...
We Stand With Black Lives Matter
Earlier today our CTO sent me an email announcing a change in an upcoming speaking engagement with NS1. They had rightfully decided to postpone their INSIGHTS2020 digital conference in light of current events in the US. He applauded them for their choice to...
We’ve Got The Americas Covered
This month (May, 2020), we will be launching new PoPs in Boston, MA, USA, and Lima, Peru. 2020 has been full of upgrades here at CacheFly. We have significantly expanded our footprint to serve our growing customer base better. We plan to aggressively continue our...
New PoPs Are Live: Calgary and Rio De Janeiro
As part of our continuous CDN expansion, we are pleased to announce we have completed work on our new PoPs in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. These PoPs are strategically placed to improve our network capacity in North and South America. After...
CacheFly COVID-19 update
Here at CacheFly, we are taking COVID-19 seriously. CacheFly has a Business Continuity Plan in place to provide direction to our internal teams and vendors if a pandemic infection poses a health and safety threat to our customers, vendors, or employees. We've moved...
South America expansion plans for 2020
Significantly upgrading our South American footprint to better serve our customers
TCP Anycast in the Cloud! AWS Global Accelerator: Welcome to 2006. (And still all the FUD).
In 2006, at NANOG 37, I joined join Barrett Lyon and Todd Underwood in the first public sharing of data for commercially operating TCP Anycast platforms. We felt our data from operating our platforms flew in the face of the conventional wisdom at the time…
Load balancing on JunOS
One of the fun things that tends to happen when I’m coaching someone through an Anycast deployment is getting past the first proof of concept, which usually looks something like: “a west coast webserver” and “east coast webserver” each announcing a /32 via BGP…
Why CDN capacity numbers don’t matter
I’ve been constantly fascinated over the last 10 or 15 years as CDN’s have started to release “capacity numbers”, and more and more people have started to ask about CDN capacity. How many servers do you have, how many terabits of capacity do you have…
HTTP/2 is Not A Magic Bullet
Don’t expect to see a presentation at the next Velocity, AWS re:Invent, or Interop Conference that states:
HTTP/2 is here. CDNs are no longer necessary. Fire all your performance engineers…
5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With DNS
Running a multi-CDN setup may sound like a daunting endeavor, but thanks to CacheFly and NS1, it’s not only an easy thing to do, it’s a pathway to savings and great end user experience…
CacheFly Capacity Upgrades and HTTP/2 Support
As part of our commitment to provide our customers with the fastest content delivery while handling ongoing bandwidth demand and growth in our customer base, we’ve added capacity and servers in the following locations…
Anycast – “Think” before you talk – Part II
This post is Part II of Anycast – “Think” before you talk | Traditional methods to route users to the closest PoP rely on DNS-based geographic load balancing. DNS attempts to map users requests to the …
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
Why Do Companies of All Sizes Choose CacheFly?
CacheFly has exceeded our expectations on every level, from the technical operation of the actual service to the top-notch support staff and their responsiveness. I don’t believe our CDN has ever suffered noticeable downtime.
Director Of Technology, Ars Technica
CacheFly just works. Our users don’t have to think about how they get our programs; they just do, fast and easily…the show must roll and CacheFly keeps them flowing without a hitch.
Founder, Owner & Host, TWiT.TV
Cachefly stood above the competition with their sensible and affordable pricing, clean interface, and straight forward API. And in 10 years, CacheFly has never failed to deliver (both literally and figuratively).
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