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Anyone using cheap CDNs? Me likes SimpleCDN

6 points by vnuk 17y ago

jsares 17y ago
We've used CacheFly and have been really happy. The price is right and at our low number of transfers it always maxes out the customers downstream pipe. The only issue we've had is some of our customer's internal firewalls have blocked one of our files that 5GB+ but I guess that would happen not matter which CDN we used.
vnuk 17y ago
It could always be cheaper of course. Please share your experiences with this or other CDNs.
- kierank 17y ago
  SimpleCDN change their pricing structure often. I've also experienced quite significant amounts of downtime. Also their routing system routes me to Chicago even though I'm based in London.
thorax 17y ago
The owner of SimpleCDN struck me as a bit flaky and rude. When I searched then for reviews of SimpleCDN you'll see some red flags in the way he responds to other people. I asked something about this myself a long while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181010 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181010 If you have your "showdead" flag on settings, you'll see some comments there that are kind of anti-SimpleCDN from people who had commented on nothing else before and/or just signed-up that day to comment. I'm not sure whether that's someone trying to discredit them or just a coincidence. We considered using them (and played with their service a tad), but Cloudfront has been working well enough for our needs (since we also use S3 a lot).
- MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
  +1 for Cloudfront. I've been pleased with it so far, especially considering how easy it was to set up. My biggest downside is that they don't support https, which can be a deal breaker for some people.
piers 17y ago
I've used CloudFiles from Rackspace. It does the job
- byoung2 17y ago
  I use CloudFiles as well, and I've been 100% satisfied. They use Limelight for CDN, which is amazing for the price.
  - kierank 17y ago
    If CNAMEs worked I would be sold.
philwise 17y ago
One advantage that SimpleCDN has over Cloudfront is that it support http pseudo-streaming of flv and h264 video. I wrote some notes on it here: http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/Video-Streaming-Be-your-own-YouTube.html http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/Video-Streaming-Be-your-...
piers 17y ago
It's a bit of a hack, but if you upload something to google app engine, isn't that kind of a CDN?

6 points by vnuk 17y ago

We've used CacheFly and have been really happy. The price is right and at our low number of transfers it always maxes out the customers downstream pipe. The only issue we've had is some of our customer's internal firewalls have blocked one of our files that 5GB+ but I guess that would happen not matter which CDN we used.

vnuk 17y ago

It could always be cheaper of course. Please share your experiences with this or other CDNs.

kierank 17y ago
SimpleCDN change their pricing structure often. I've also experienced quite significant amounts of downtime. Also their routing system routes me to Chicago even though I'm based in London.

thorax 17y ago

The owner of SimpleCDN struck me as a bit flaky and rude. When I searched then for reviews of SimpleCDN you'll see some red flags in the way he responds to other people. I asked something about this myself a long while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181010 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181010 If you have your "showdead" flag on settings, you'll see some comments there that are kind of anti-SimpleCDN from people who had commented on nothing else before and/or just signed-up that day to comment. I'm not sure whether that's someone trying to discredit them or just a coincidence. We considered using them (and played with their service a tad), but Cloudfront has been working well enough for our needs (since we also use S3 a lot).

MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
+1 for Cloudfront. I've been pleased with it so far, especially considering how easy it was to set up. My biggest downside is that they don't support https, which can be a deal breaker for some people.

piers 17y ago

I've used CloudFiles from Rackspace. It does the job

byoung2 17y ago
I use CloudFiles as well, and I've been 100% satisfied. They use Limelight for CDN, which is amazing for the price.
- kierank 17y ago
  If CNAMEs worked I would be sold.

philwise 17y ago

One advantage that SimpleCDN has over Cloudfront is that it support http pseudo-streaming of flv and h264 video. I wrote some notes on it here: http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/Video-Streaming-Be-your-own-YouTube.html http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/Video-Streaming-Be-your-...

piers 17y ago

It's a bit of a hack, but if you upload something to google app engine, isn't that kind of a CDN?