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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…
5 Ways Ars Technica Combats the Threat of Website Latency
Since its start in 1998, Ars Technica has grown to become one of the largest tech news sites, serving an average of 60 billion pages per month. According to Ars’ Director of Technology, Jason Marlin, “We are one of the largest, busiest websites in tech news…
CacheFly Listed No. 1 Best CDN for 3rd Consecutive Year
TopTenReviews names CacheFly #1, and Gold and Excellence award winner for best CDN—for the third consecutive year.
TopTenReviews, a leading independent third-party products, services and software reviewer
Push vs. Pull: What’s the Difference?
Like most CDNs, CacheFly offers two distinct methods of caching your files: “push,” which is the traditional upload method, and origin “pull,” also known as reverse proxy. Here, we will explain the differences so you …
Varnish and CacheFly Webinar Archive Now Available
In case you missed the Using Varnish for Future-Proof Caching webinar, an archive is now available. The webinar, presented by CTO and Founders, Per Buer of Varnish Software, and Matt Levine of CacheFly, focused on …
Announcing CacheFly CDN—Turbocharged with Varnish Plus
I’m pleased to announce that over the past year, we’ve been revamping the underpinnings of our CDN, using Varnish Plus.
Varnish Plus is an enhanced version of the open source front-end web application…
Now Serving Dubai and Seoul
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just added edge locations in Seoul and Dubai to better serve your users in both regions.
Over the past few years, we’ve been rapidly expanding our network coverage with strategically…
Images Killing Your Page Speed?
We’ve all experienced it. You enter a site…and wait for the page to load…impatiently watching as the timer begins to spin.
3 seconds go by…still spinning. 10 seconds go by…it may load any time now…
Troubleshoot 404 Errors
When a client accesses CacheFly’s CDN to request your content, every request we receive is responded to with an HTTP status code. These status codes represent how each request was handled. A brief overview of codes…
DIY CDN – Friend or Foe
We are witnessing a hyperconnectivity era with everything and anything pushed to the Internet to take advantage of its broad footprint. Users are scattered everywhere and they all want consistent service…
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 …
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 I
How you experience the performance of an application boils down to where you stand on the Internet.
Global reachability means everyone can reach everyone, but not everyone gets the same level …
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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