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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by dangrossman on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:22PM (#7019236) 

    c:\>ping dangrossman.github.io
    Pinging github.map.fastly.net [199.27.72.133]
Fastly (http://www.fastly.com/).
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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by toomuchtodo on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:25PM (#7019256)
So I'm not the only one who went looking :) Not sure why they don't mention the specific CDN on their blog post. Possibly because they host at Rackspace but don't use Rackspace's CDN? (Which is white label Akamai last time I checked).
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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by julien_c on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:33PM (#7019319)
Apparently they don't yet have a great network of nodes in Europe though:

    ping dangrossman.github.io
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.173/16.275/16.463/0.074 ms
(From Paris, France)

In comparison, Cloudfront is something like 2ms away.

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Re:Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages by bevacqua on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:35PM (#7019335)
They've been using fastly for a while now, makes sense that they're using fastly in this case as well.
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