Amazon Cloudfront CDN With A WordPress Blog

by Andy Brudtkuhl on October 11, 2009

“Besides some little bugs with a thumbnail plugin we’re using not related at all to Cloudfront, our page load times have been cut by between 40% and 80% the former, only when we’re loading a full image to then make the thumbnail. On one test, Pingomatic went from 8.7 seconds before to 2.9 seconds after…and that’s staggering. I don’t get the full effect in Australia because there’s no local CDN, but even I can see the difference here.”

This is how Inquitr is using Amazon’s CDN technology with WordPress to host a highly available and reliable WordPress site – via Amazon Cloudfront CDN with a WordPress Blog

We’ve been using Amazon CloudFront with WordPress for awhile – to serve ads, images, and media for our internet business podcast. What’s a content delivery network you ask? It’s a way to easily and efficiently distribute media on the web using Amazon S3 for storage.

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