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If anyone is interested, I've tested bandwidth performance of all of these CDNs using a CDN speedtest here: http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest http://cloudharmon
by jread 16y ago
If anyone is interested, I've tested bandwidth performance of all of these CDNs using a CDN speedtest here: http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest
I pay users on mechanical turk to run the speedtest and get about 1000 tests run each month from around the world. The speedtest does a single large file test and another test consisting of lots of small files downloaded concurrently like a browser would download a webpage. The results show that the Anycast CDNs (MaxCDN, CacheFly and Cotendo) generally perform better for the multiple smaller files (i.e. CSS, JS, images) due to usually lower latency, while large files generally download faster on the larger (as in more PoPs) DNS-based CDNs like Edgecast and CloudFront. Overall, the top performers based on this testing are Edgecast and CacheFly. CloudFront does well in Apac, but is only about average in the US. GoGrid or Speedyrails resells Edgecast at very reasonable pay-per-use rates.
- jread 16y agoIf you'd like to see the full results of these CDN tests (about 4 months worth of testing so far), I have created a report that shows performance of each CDN globally and broken down into 32 different regions (i.e. US West, EU West, APAC, etc.). I'm happy to share the results, email me if you would like access: jason [at] cloudharmony.com
- aw3c2 16y agoWhy don't you make that publically available so everyone can benefit from it?
- jread 16y agoI'm in the process of doing that... however, for now access requires a user and password which could change over time so I'd prefer not to post it here publicly. If you email I'll provide the access, no strings attached. I'm looking to get some feedback from the report as well.