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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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Using a CDN to Improve Your SEO Ranking
People hate to wait. Almost half of web visitors will abandon a web page that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. When you fail to deliver your site fast enough, you will lose visitors (and conversions)—and Google thinks you should too. In 2010, Google began using...
Using TTLB to Measure HTTP Performance
Your site should load as fast as possible. Even a 1 sec. delay in page response could result in a 7% reduction in conversions. Is your site fast enough? Even if you're using a CDN to boost web performance, an underperforming CDN will still degrade your delivery....
5 Reasons Why App Providers Choose CacheFly CDN
If you want your app to be successful, offering your end-users fast downloads and page loads—completely loaded—as quickly as possible, is one of the most important aspects your business depends on. But when high traffic and overloaded servers cause delays and downtime...
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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.
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