Finding the right CDN for our startup

Re:Finding the right CDN for our startup by nwh on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @08:19AM (#6682510)

All major browsers allow you to profile each load time of every single resource. Perfect for trying to compare relative latency at a particular location for a particular CDN. Chrome'a is especially good for this sort of thing, look at "network" in the developer tools.

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Re:Finding the right CDN for our startup by noelwelsh on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @08:25AM (#6682530)

Sure, I can test my latency, but I'm more interested in what my customers are experiencing. For instance, we have a big customer over in east Asia and I have very little idea what latency they get. When we were using Cloudfront a customer in Australia complained that they were seeing timeouts. It seems there was a bug in Amazon's routing table as Cloudfront has a POP in Sydney but their requests were going somewhere much further away.

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Re:Finding the right CDN for our startup by gabemart on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @09:28AM (#6682800)

You could try a tool like http://cloudmonitor.ca.com/en/checkit.php

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Re:Finding the right CDN for our startup by timothy89 on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @08:26AM (#6682532)

I agree, I use it all the time for quick tests, but for a bit more accurate results other tools would be better IMHO :)

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