Shopping for a CDN

In this blog post I’ll compare different CDNs with each other, on the list are: Akamai (through MySpace) CacheFly CloudFront EdgeCast (twice, through Speedyrails) LimeLight Networks (through mydeo) … and Amazon S3 — the pseudo CDN Thanks to SpeedyRails, EasyBib (CacheFly, Cloudfront, S3) and mydeo for helping with these tests. What’s a CDN? A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a service usually offered by Tier1’s or at least companies that have a so-called global network footprint....

June 5, 2010 · 7 min