Re:Show HN: Nuevo Cloud – High Performance CDN for Small Web...
by reubano on Saturday July 04, 2015 @03:37PM
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Nice project. My only advice as a potential customer is to sell the advantages over tradition (and cheaper) CDNs more clearly. Obviously, having a longer ttl is the killer feature. And what you mention above seems useful as well. But I'd like more clear cut reasons (on the landing page) why your service is the better, albiet more expensive, option.
As time goes on, it'll become a lot clearer what I mean. The goal here definitely isn't to reproduce cloudflare.
I think the feature that's going live later tonight is a good example of something that's a big benefit to smaller sites and requires more resources: Normally, each edge node in a CDN contacts the origin server and caches the file on that node. By tomorrow morning, you'll be able to tell Nuevo Cloud that if one edge node has a cache miss, it should also tell the other edge nodes about the file so they too can cache it. Essentially, 1 cache miss anywhere in the world, and you've primed the cache on the entire network.
What that means in practice is that there's a single request for a file, and it gets transferred to 8 different locations, and stored at each location for 30 days.