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What is Time to Live ( TTL ) ? [FAQ]

Time to Live or TTL is the time a file is cached on at a CDN ‘edge’ location. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) work by caching files at numerous world edge locations, when a file is requested for the first time … Continue reading

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Content Delivery Networks ( CDN ) Pricing Comparison

Contend Delivery Networks (CDN s) pricing is typically broken into bandwidth tiers plus a  charge separate storage charge. To simplify comparison I have used the base bandwidth and storage of each plan for the CDN’s which publish pricing, others such … Continue reading

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Content Delivery Network ( CDN ) Tutorial

So you’re convinced that a Content Delivery Network ( CDN ) would be a huge benefit to your site (if you’re still on the fence just read this first) and you are unsure of how to integrate it. How to … Continue reading

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Cloud Server Monitoring

Cloud server monitoring  is essential to ensure your server is up and running and performing optimally. The tools to monitor cloud servers range from basic tools to simply check your site is running to those monitoring and diagnosing all aspects … Continue reading

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Cloud Hosting vs Dedicated Hosting

The choice between cloud hosting or dedicated hosting often comes down to your requirements for your host, we break this down into the key areas for any hosting solution: Scale – This is probably the biggest single advantage of cloud … Continue reading

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Using Amazon S3 and CloudFront on WordPress

For the past six months I have used Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3) to store all the newly uploaded images on my WordPress installations and it works like a snap. But why should you host all your images on S3 … Continue reading

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3 Tools to Test and Diagnose Site Performance

So your site is running a bit slow but you have followed the golden rules or site optimization, how do you find where the bottlenecks are and how to fix them. These tools should help you identify performance issues with … Continue reading

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10 Best Practices to Speed Up Your Site – Part I

A sluggish website not only reduces your site’s ability to attract and retain visitors it also looks unprofessional and will not be attractive to advertisers. If your site is hosted on the cloud it is also an indication that the … Continue reading

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Windows Cloud Hosting

Initial cloud hosting offerings focused on the LAMP stack, however in the past 6 months several viable Windows cloud hosting options have become available. Both Rackspace and Amazon now have Windows cloud offerings and most notably Microsoft has just launched … Continue reading

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Rackspace Cloud Sites Review

I’ve been using Rackspace Cloud Sites for around six months now and decided it was time to do a full Cloud Sites review. I run about 10 sites with varying amounts of traffic – from 2000 uniques/ 4000 pagesviews per … Continue reading

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