Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Recently, I was evaluating CDN options for a client with some unique challenges. We ended up using Amazon CloudFront, but ill detail the options we looked at and what let us to this decision.
Some things to note:-
We would serve CSS, JS, Images referred to from stylesheets and some website images ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
I am planing to do a series of posts on analyzing popular websites I visit frequently. By now I am so obsessed to optimize for speed that I've run out of sites to optimize, hence I'm doing it for other sites.
To start with I'll analyze Search Engine Roundtable.
Before I start, ...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
I am not a front-end kinda guy, but these days my latest obsession is to test and improve web page loading times. With this blogpost, I intend to show with examples of some selected websites and what are they doing right and what *desperately* needs to be improved. As I ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
While many people are happy with using DNS service providers such as OpenDNS, Google, etc... I will show you here why they may not produce optimal results.
The way most CDNs work is by using DNS routing. When a user attempts to resolve a hostname, the CDN's DNS server responds with ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Living in Thailand has its fair share of disadvantages. The most prominent being bad internet and poor response times. In most cases, the packet shaping, caching and filtering mechanisms use by ISPs do more harm than good. A response from a US server may take anywhere between 100 to 1000 ...
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