Yeah - figured a CDN would help a lot, simply because the images would be distributed across the world.
What sort of geographical distribution do you see? I would have thought that given the international nature, you would see a good chunk of it come from overseas. Having the CDN would help with pagespeed load times, I would figure. Also noticed you minified your CSS and JS ;o) Wasn't that way when I first looked :) Mark On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Geoff Bowers <mod...@daemon.com.au> wrote: > On Monday, 29 July 2013 14:46:14 UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: > >> Curious that you didn't use a CDN - any particular reason? >> > > The video assets are on Akamai (or Limelight). Everything else runs > through a cluster of Varnish Servers. > > Ideally we'd have all Olympic image and file assets on Amazon S3 or > similar but it's a fairly integrated system across all their sites so it's > hard to consider moving just one site. For example, > http://media.olympics.com.au syndicates galleries and video assets to all > Olympic web assets. > > However, now that FarCry 6.3 natively supports a number of CDN solutions > it's likely we'll upgrade the publishing platform and switch on a CDN in > the lead up to the Games in Jan/Feb 2014 when the traffic starts to pick up. > > GB > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- E: mark.man...@gmail.com T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic W: www.compoundtheory.com 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast http://www.2ddu.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
