Amazon CloudFront - concluzia unui utilizator

Posted by Bogdan Nedelcu on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:13 -0500 in Web Performance

Citeam mai devreme postul unui blogger legat de CDN-uri, si in mod special legat de Amazon CloudFront.

Dupa ce autorul articolului a facut o descriere in detaliu a ceea ce inseamna CDN, avantajele pe care acest sistem de distributie le ofera si o enumerare a principalelor oferte din piata, incheie articolul cu o concluzie legata de CDN-ul Amazon, pe care il si utilizeaza de altfel. Pe mine m-a amuzat, mai ales sinceritatea cu care a pus problema, fapt pentru care il redau si aici:

My biggest concern is that I'll take a bath in service charges if my usage spikes for some reason---such as getting an Instalaunch or Slashdotted or a high rating on Digg. In theory, the additional traffic will eventually convert to more regular readers and therefore more ad revenue, but that takes a while, whereas my Cloudfront bill is due immediately.

The real questions are, does this make my site any faster? And does that higher speed encourage more people to visit? And do the extra visitors translate to more revenue?

The truth is, although the site feels like it loads faster, I haven't actually benchmarked it, and I don't track my conversion numbers, so I have no way of knowing how much money this is making me. I just did it because I thought it was cool.

Intrebarea ramane: cand este momentul si cand este rentabil sa apelezi la un Content Delivery Network?

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# Andy said on Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:35:43 -0500

I always enjoy learning what other people think about Amazon Web Services and how they use them. Check out my very own tool CloudBerry Explorer that helps to
manage S3 on Windows . It is a freeware. http://cloudberrylab.com/

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