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Not to rain no anyone's parade here, but real CDN providers like Akamai, Cotendo and EdgeCast offer a far superior service for far less money. This thing is ho
by foobarbazetc 15y ago
Not to rain no anyone's parade here, but real CDN providers like Akamai, Cotendo and EdgeCast offer a far superior service for far less money.
This thing is hosted on GAE, which is not fast, and doesn't have the global footprint of even the smallest CDN player.
- drakaal 15y agoGAE is fast for things Akamai isn't. GAE actually has a more global foot print, because it has more peering agreements than any provider on the planet, and while you would be right if this was a CDN for pushing 1 Gig files, it is a CDN for pushing your 60k images all over the place. The cost of a Cache Miss on Akamai for a small file is VERY high, and nearly non-existent on GAE. Building the right tool on the right platform for the right kind of job. (oh and pricing, You can't even get started with Akamai for less than $1000 a month, which goes a long ways on that pricing thing. Plus Akamai's 8-12 cents is not really 12 cents when you pay for storage, and all of the other nickel and dime things. CDN In A Box is just Simple Pricing, and Simple Deployment. ( you ever tried to write a blog post then upload the images to Akamai?)