<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Kyle Gordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kyle@lodge.glasgownet.com">kyle@lodge.glasgownet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:<br>
> Ian Dees schrieb:<br>
>> Hi list,<br>
>><br>
>> Just saw this pop up in my RSS reader:<br>
>> <a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/09/were-never-cont.html" target="_blank">http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/09/were-never-cont.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> Maybe we could throw the Mapnik tiles up on Amazon's content delivery<br>
>> network so that they arrive quickly.<br>
><br>
> There are other CDNs that we could use, and which might be cheaper,<br>
> too, for example the Coral CDN, which works by simply appending<br>
> ".<a href="http://nyud.net" target="_blank">nyud.net</a>" to your URL's host part, and is AFAICS free, as in beer.<br>
><br>
> Maximum TTL of objects on Coral seems to be 24hrs, soo that's nice for<br>
> our tiles, too.<br>
><br>
Coral seems to be the obvious choice for this sort of thing. Can anyone<br>
come up with some more pros and cons for it?<br>
<br>
Pros: Has been seen to cope with major /. events, free, simple<br>
Cons: uurm...<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Kyle<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Cons: It's never, ever worked for me, across different computers and networks... I have no idea why.<br><br>Karl<br></div>