Hello, I never heard of MediaTemple or their CDN until I read your post. I tried to look at their site for your information and it seems to be hidden.
We just went through this same thing but starting with Rackspace and then moved to Amazon. One thing I ran across is that they (MT) use "Objects" for their CDN. If this is anything like Rackspace, you may run into troubles. For example, on Rackspace, you can only create Objects in a "root directory" of your buckets and have to fake a file system if you want multiple directories. Without performing some kind of a simulation of a heirarchy within a flat-directory structure, you'll have a pretty difficult time managing your files. It really depends on what you plan on using the CDN for, though. We started with Rackspace and loved them. But, that one feature drove us to try out Amazon's S3. Amazon provided the ability to store files in a directory structure. And from there, publishing that "bucket" (I forget what they're called on S3) to the CDN was extremely easy. The main downside to Amazon's Cloudfront is the TTL Caching -- but I honestly haven't tried that hard to invalidate or set lower refresh times for objects in the CDN. The thing I loved about Rackspace was their *excellent* support -- but with Amazon you have a huge community which sort of makes up for that. I would suggest doing a complete evaluation of the three products. Include components like pricing (hosting & CDN), development time, and support. Then, present these to your boss and let him/her see why a specific provider might be the best to use. Sure, MediaTemple *might* be the cheapest to host (I don't know, just assuming) but if there's no existing tools to use them as a storage backend, it might cost your boss thousands of dollars (equivalent to years of hosting costs) to have you build this thing. Sorry I couldn't compare MT CDN with the others but I hope that offers a little help. On Oct 22, 5:11 pm, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a client who is suggesting that I look into MediaTemple's > ProCDN. I currently only have experience with RackSpace's CloudFiles > CDN, and only know of it and Amazon S3 for django storage support. > Furthermore, I cannot seem to access their API pages without having a > login, so this complicates it, as I'd like to see what sort of REST > API I'd be looking into implementing. > > Has anyone had any success with managing a MediaTemple ProCDN with > Django? Or rather, as anybody used MediaTemple's CDN at all and what > are their reviews over other popular CDNs such as S3 or Cloudfiles? > > Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
