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.
by Andy Brudtkuhl on June 24, 2009
Today Amazon announced an update to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) console supporting its CDN infrastructure CloudFront.
Manage Amazon CloudFront through an easy to use interface. The AWS Management Console lets you review all your CloudFront distributions, create new distributions, or edit existing ones. All the features of the CloudFront API are supported: you can enable or disable distributions, configure CNAMEs, enable end-user logging, and more.
by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 19, 2009
Every once in awhile I go on an Amazon S3 kick. Mainly – it’s because I love the service. But for the most part people are still confused about “cloud storage” and “content delivery networks“ and think you have to be a technology wizard to use them. This is not the case – there are some awesome tools that help you work with Amazon S3. We covered Mac apps for Amazon S3 and the latest S3Fox Plugin. This time we are going to discuss CloudBerry Explorer.
Features include:
- Manage Multiple S3 Accounts
- Share Buckets with Other Users
- Copy Between Buckets
- Support for Requester Pays
- Recursive Permission Management (great feature)
- Amazon CloudFront Manager
CloudBerry Videos
Overall if you are looking to manage your Amazon S3 on Windows PC, I’d go with CloudBerry Explorer or S3Fox. Both are great choices.
by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 19, 2009
I was pleased to open Firefox today to see an update S3Fox – a firefox plugin to manage Amazon S3. We use S3Fox extensively to manage Amazon S3 on our PC’s. There are some great new features I am very excited about. First off they have updated the interface to resemble the familiar paned layout of popular FTP clients.
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 14, 2009
