In short, I added a CDN to M/A. The none techie types are now going..Huh, whats that, as in Canadian? CDN - Content Delivery Network. What this does is speed up the site. Files that are not changed often are offloaded to servers placed around the county. When requested they come from a server closer to you than the main server in Kansas City. There are now nodes in L.A., Seattle, New York, Atlanta, Amsterdam, Dallas, Miami, Chicago and Northern Virgina. Browser limitations only allow for up to 4 files to be downloaded at a time. By placing these rarely changed files in 4 different subdomains it tricks the bowser into downloading as many as 25 files at a time. So besides the files being closer to you, more of them can be concurrently loaded. Once all the changes propagate around the network I'll be performing some speed tests to quantify how much faster this might be for a member of the site. In the mean time you might see a page with funky formating now and then, don't be alarmed, it's just me testing settings to tweek them to make page loads even faster.
:cornut: Is this why when I just now replied to a post, it changed to a differently formatted almost white screen. Every thing worked fine but my eyes said,"WOW! This is different!"(I think that it was the LCA bushing thread) Jasonopcorn:
Sound the thread(s) with the unfound "golden key" is somewhere in L.A., Seattle, New York, Atlanta, Amsterdam, Dallas, Miami, Chicago and Northern Virgina. I think it was over a few Molson CDN's that Nate decided where to stash the more stale content
I'm not sure I understand this fixation with speed...................oh, wait a minute, yes I do! Never mind.......
:eek6: Snort....Snort. "Hey,any one have a rolled up dollar bill that I can borrow?":frown2::ihih::lol::lol: Jason
:cornut:Yeh I guess it is......................:lol::devil::ihihand yes,GREAT JOB Nathan) Jasonopcorn:
Had to back this out for a few days. While it was working for many, our friends over at Comcast are not so fast in updating their DNS records. Need to wait at least 48 hours for their walled system to catch up. Then it's just a matter of clicking a few check boxes to turn it back on.
With the issues I had the first time around and then the M/A World HQ relocation this was put on the back burner...till this morning that is. Motoring Alliance is now running off a Content Delivery Network successfully. Page load times have dropped, in some cases by as much as half depending on the content of the page. Images hosted on the site are sailing into place quickly, scripts are loading in milliseconds now.
Soo ...is it now running at Columbus speed or has the fresh Short North food made it appear to be faster? Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk