I practice IT. Just like an attorney practices law or a doctor practices medicine. Information Technology is constantly changing. And with that, comes the need to learn and practice.
For the past couple of weeks, I have been trying out CDN’s and the practice of speeding this website up. Between WordPress, MySQL, and Apache, some bottlenecks were occuring. What does CDN stand for? Content Delivery Network. It may as well stand for “awesome”.
I first gave Amazon’s “CloudFront” a shot. Not too shabby. It performed as advertised. Next, I moved on to MaxCDN. This seemed to do a much better job than Amazon CloudFront.
More on this subject soon…