Google has quietly launched a CDN

Not to rag on the offering, but the headline is just not right. This is a CloudFront competitor not an Akamai competitor. Its a very rigid barebones product at a low margin via self-serv tooling.

Re: Google has quietly launched a CDN

#5

Post by lopatin » Mon, Dec 14, 2015, 3:09 AM UTC

I'm sure it's a great service. I found it a little funny that this is a CDN that is "not [yet] recommended for production use".

Re: Google has quietly launched a CDN

#6

Post by dorfsmay » Mon, Dec 14, 2015, 3:29 AM UTC

akurilin wrote: post #2

I couldn't quite find this, but what domain are these files going to be served from?

Usually you created CNAMEs from your domain to your CDN's.

Re: Google has quietly launched a CDN

#7

Post by mkj » Mon, Dec 14, 2015, 3:42 AM UTC

cagenut wrote: post #4

Not to rag on the offering, but the headline is just not right. This is a CloudFront competitor not an Akamai competitor. Its a very rigid barebones product at a low margin via self-serv tooling.

Google's reach of "Edge Caches" seems closer to Akamai's than CloudFront's though - lots of indivdual ISPs have them.

Re: Google has quietly launched a CDN

#8

Post by hayksaakian » Mon, Dec 14, 2015, 3:58 AM UTC

dorfsmay wrote: post #6

akurilin wrote: post #2

I couldn't quite find this, but what domain are these files going to be served from?

Usually you created CNAMEs from your domain to your CDN's.

Is it best practice to use a separate domain for CDN because of cookies?

Eg: examplecdn.com instead of cdn.example.com

Re: Google has quietly launched a CDN

#9

Post by hayksaakian » Mon, Dec 14, 2015, 3:58 AM UTC

dorfsmay wrote: post #6

akurilin wrote: post #2

I couldn't quite find this, but what domain are these files going to be served from?

Usually you created CNAMEs from your domain to your CDN's.

Is it best practice to use a separate domain for CDN because of cookies?

Eg: examplecdn.com instead of cdn.example.com

Re: Google has quietly launched a CDN

#10

Post by illumen » Mon, Dec 14, 2015, 4:26 AM UTC

lopatin wrote: post #5

I'm sure it's a great service. I found it a little funny that this is a CDN that is "not [yet] recommended for production use".

It's also kind of funny that it's available in limited regions.

Alpha, is what the Article says. Which means not ready, and changing in development quite a lot.