Who said s3 is a CDN at the first place!?
Certainly not Amazon, or they wouldn't have provided a service that acts as a CDN based on an S3 bucket.
CDN vs S3
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Re: CDN vs S3
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you haven't found a good alternative yet, we'll be happy to help. /co-founder at Advection.NET
I'll have a look. Here is what I need: CDN that support Range Requests correctly. I want to use S3 as the origin. I need an edge location in Australia. Also, there can be no 301/302 HTTP redirects, thus I have eliminated Google as a potential offering. My current spend is around $1000 a month, so it is a tiny account.
Don't have an edge location in Australia currently, but our Hong Kong POP could work with reasonable latency - we can test that. Let's discuss offline.
malatortsev at advection dot net
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#53For everyone saying this is obvious: I'm one of those idiots that didn't quite get it and I appreciate this post a lot.
For the past week, I've been working on writing a little static site generator and putting it on S3 and I thought I was pretty damn clever for finally getting around to doing that... except now it turns out I'm clueless yet again. I'm looking at Cloudfront now, but I'm still not sure if has all the features that I was expected out of S3 alone (someone already mentioned Route 53 integration).
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#54What is next? A blogpost saying "Hammers are terrible screwdrivers. Don't use a hammer with a screw!"?
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#55For everyone saying this is obvious: I'm one of those idiots that didn't quite get it and I appreciate this post a lot. For the past week, I've been working on writing a little static site generator and putting it on S3 and I thought I was pretty damn clever for finally getting around to doing that... except now it turns out I'm clueless yet again. I'm looking at Cloudfront now, but I'm still not sure if has all the…
I wrote a static site generator at the beginning of this year:)
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#56For everyone saying this is obvious: I'm one of those idiots that didn't quite get it and I appreciate this post a lot. For the past week, I've been working on writing a little static site generator and putting it on S3 and I thought I was pretty damn clever for finally getting around to doing that... except now it turns out I'm clueless yet again. I'm looking at Cloudfront now, but I'm still not sure if has all the…
Check out cloudpress: https://github.com/cloudpress/cloudpress
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#57What do you think CloudFront is for?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am in the process of abandoning Cloudfront, because they have a serious bug when serving video files. They serve HTTP 206 (Range-Get) as HTTP 1.0 but 206 didn't exist in HTTP 1.0. Chrome and Firefox treat this as "uncacheable", thus media assets bypass the local media cache. Depending on the nature of the content, Cloudfront is not usable for video, particularly the kind where people seek around a bunch, like instr…
You're doing something horribly wrong. I work for a live streaming company and we make extensive use of Varnish. It can probably solve the problem you're describing.
I'm not doing a damn thing wrong other than using Cloudfront. The problem is on their end, not mine. Thinking Varnish could solve this problem is utterly confused. Do you know what CDN does? CDNs have servers located around the world so files are loaded quickly and with low latency.
Furthermore, your profile suggest you work for a pump and dump penny stock company (basically a scam). If your employer is paying you in something other than cash, you need to walk away asap.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am in the process of abandoning Cloudfront, because they have a serious bug when serving video files. They serve HTTP 206 (Range-Get) as HTTP 1.0 but 206 didn't exist in HTTP 1.0. Chrome and Firefox treat this as "uncacheable", thus media assets bypass the local media cache. Depending on the nature of the content, Cloudfront is not usable for video, particularly the kind where people seek around a bunch, like instr…
You're doing something horribly wrong. I work for a live streaming company and we make extensive use of Varnish. It can probably solve the problem you're describing.
Have you (or anyone else) had a chance to A/B test caches? That is, setup network API requests to be duplicated/filtered from production and sent to test environment(s).. credit to netflix.
Setup enough identical boxes with each of Squid, Nginx, Varnish, trafficserver, etc. and evaluate each with basically the same traffic and however much tweaking.
Re: CDN vs S3
#60For everyone saying this is obvious: I'm one of those idiots that didn't quite get it and I appreciate this post a lot. For the past week, I've been working on writing a little static site generator and putting it on S3 and I thought I was pretty damn clever for finally getting around to doing that... except now it turns out I'm clueless yet again. I'm looking at Cloudfront now, but I'm still not sure if has all the…
Back Fastly with your S3 static site. Works really well.