Have you ever used a CDN?

[pandaa]

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance.

I've never used a "true" CDN, but I hosted all of my images/CSS on another domain that was used exclusively for it. I found that it greatly increased my site's speed, and I could only imagine how a true CDN would help a site!

 

[Sam]

Yup. We use OVH's CDN for http://imgs.us to try and get everything loading nice and fast. 🙂

 

[pandaa]

Yup. We use OVH's CDN for http://imgs.us to try and get everything loading nice and fast. 🙂

If you don't mind me asking, how much do you pay for a service like this, and what comes with your plan? 🙂

 

[Sam]

If you don't mind me asking, how much do you pay for a service like this, and what comes with your plan?

Well we actually get it through a reseller because the bandwidth use on the site isn't that great but it's pretty cheap: https://www.ovh.co.uk/cdn/infrastructure/.

We will probably purchase it direct at some point but if anyone wants to halve the 1TB plan, we could do that. Even though it's cheap, it would still be a waste for us when we don't use that much bandwidth on imgs.us.

 

[MasterA]

I have used cloudflare before as a CDN.

 

[Tucker933]

I've used the Pro version of CloudFlare, but their service was unreliable and added significant latency, which really defeats the whole point. I unfortunately gave it about 6 months before giving up on them.

 

[Reverse Flash]

Er, IcyBoards had a CDN, I think.

 

[Thomasss]

I currently use Google Drive as our CDN. It's free and works great, but the most important part is the fact that it's free. 😛