Comments on: Making the Grade http://www.thynctank.com/software/2007/12/making-the-grade/ The Science of Thynctank. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:59:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thynctank http://www.thynctank.com/software/2007/12/making-the-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-600 thynctank Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:09:07 +0000 http://www.thynctank.com/web/2007/12/making-the-grade/#comment-600 <p>Flickr is the only proper one, save thyncology.com. The reason it can be construed as such is that it allows for add'l simult. downloads, which is the main point of using a CDN. (the other being load balancing, which I of course have no $$$ to afford)</p> <p>The others have been written off as CDNs temporarily, as mentioned in the original post. In reality I'll simply copy the now-foreign images and use them locally, which avoids touching the other servers entirely.</p> <p>Mirroring would of course vary per host. Dreamhost uses a simple form field upon creating or on editing any domain hosted with them to point the domain to any other domain. The point of mirroring and how it varies from redirecting is that the URL does not change from the client's point of view. Here's their wiki page on the subject: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Mirror_Domain</p> <p>I'm hoping I don't actually receive a penalty on the mirroring, (as the wiki page makes it clear this is a possibility) as it's not harming anyone and was only done for the performance boost.</p> <p>Wow. I notice some crazy grammatical issues with the post I've got to correct. Guess that's what happens with a 6am post.</p> Flickr is the only proper one, save thyncology.com. The reason it can be construed as such is that it allows for add’l simult. downloads, which is the main point of using a CDN. (the other being load balancing, which I of course have no $$$ to afford)

The others have been written off as CDNs temporarily, as mentioned in the original post. In reality I’ll simply copy the now-foreign images and use them locally, which avoids touching the other servers entirely.

Mirroring would of course vary per host. Dreamhost uses a simple form field upon creating or on editing any domain hosted with them to point the domain to any other domain. The point of mirroring and how it varies from redirecting is that the URL does not change from the client’s point of view. Here’s their wiki page on the subject: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Mirror_Domain

I’m hoping I don’t actually receive a penalty on the mirroring, (as the wiki page makes it clear this is a possibility) as it’s not harming anyone and was only done for the performance boost.

Wow. I notice some crazy grammatical issues with the post I’ve got to correct. Guess that’s what happens with a 6am post.

]]> By: David Rivers http://www.thynctank.com/software/2007/12/making-the-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-598 David Rivers Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:41:01 +0000 http://www.thynctank.com/web/2007/12/making-the-grade/#comment-598 <p>These are some really weird workarounds, I must say. I don't quite understand how any of those sites, save perhaps Flickr, could be used as content delivery networks, but I'm intrigued. Also am curious about configuring domain mirroring.</p> These are some really weird workarounds, I must say. I don’t quite understand how any of those sites, save perhaps Flickr, could be used as content delivery networks, but I’m intrigued. Also am curious about configuring domain mirroring.

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