Content Delivery Networks: A Primer
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) cache your content around the globe to reduce latency and improve performance for end users. It is a very powerful tool and can be leveraged by any web site. Historically, CDN providers have been very expensive and were not practical for most people. Now things have changed and there are many CDN providers that cater to cloud customers who want pay-as-you-go service. Check out CloudFront, Rackspace Cloud Files, MaxCDN, SoftLayer CloudLayer, and more....