2 years, 10 months ago
What content delivery network do you recommend? EdgeCast? S3 or Cloudfront?
I'm looking for a CDN that can delivery tons of 12KB images. Any recommendations?
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Hi Chris,
S3 technically doesn't qualify as a CDN as its only a storage service. You can use S3 as storage in conjunction with using many CDNs out there, including EdgeCast.
You should be aware, though, that transactional costs can add up with S3 depending on the nature of your traffic and using the CDN origin can benefit your performance as well as cost.
Cloudfront is a CDN service that is Global, but does not provide a full range of CDN services to be considered in the Tier1 of CDNs. Services such as Streaming capabilities, Analytics and included 24/7 support as well as 100% uptime are part of the offerings of EdgeCast and other CDNs that are considered a more premium service.
Additionally, 3rd party tests have shown EdgeCast performance considerably better than Cloudfront as well as other CDNs. But I recommend you simply run tests yourself with accounts from both companies.
S3 technically doesn't qualify as a CDN as its only a storage service. You can use S3 as storage in conjunction with using many CDNs out there, including EdgeCast.
You should be aware, though, that transactional costs can add up with S3 depending on the nature of your traffic and using the CDN origin can benefit your performance as well as cost.
Cloudfront is a CDN service that is Global, but does not provide a full range of CDN services to be considered in the Tier1 of CDNs. Services such as Streaming capabilities, Analytics and included 24/7 support as well as 100% uptime are part of the offerings of EdgeCast and other CDNs that are considered a more premium service.
Additionally, 3rd party tests have shown EdgeCast performance considerably better than Cloudfront as well as other CDNs. But I recommend you simply run tests yourself with accounts from both companies.
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