Scott,
They do have a service where you can tag dynamic content. I believe its
called dynamic site accelerator. We didnt use it we only used them for image
hosting
Eric
On 6/22/07, Scott Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I was at the FDA they used it for FDA.gov. It's a html cacheing
When I was at the FDA they used it for FDA.gov. It's a html cacheing
service. You push a copy of your site to their server farm, and make some
DNS changes.
NOTE (BIG NOTE) If your website(s) are dynamically driven and change
frequently Akamai is not an option, as far as I know. FDA has all of
Im not familiar with the pricing but I can say it was easy to setup.
basically we pointed images.domain.com to akamai. Then we created an
images-mirror.domain.com
All images had full url http://images.domain.com/image.jpg
When the user requests the page if akamai doesnt have the image they
On 6/22/07, Scott Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NOTE (BIG NOTE) If your website(s) are dynamically driven and change
frequently Akamai is not an option, as far as I know. FDA has all of their
ColdFusion apps locally hosted and not cached at Akamai.
This isn't entirely accurate - they
NOTE (BIG NOTE) If your website(s) are dynamically driven and change
frequently Akamai is not an option, as far as I know.
basically we pointed images.domain.com to akamai. Then we created an
images-mirror.domain.com
Thanks guys...
So combining those two responses...
We do have a dynamic
My boss wants me to look into what is involved with using
Akamai's services.
I'm hoping someone may have used them before, and could give
a brief overview of what's involved: pricing structure, how
is their service, how it ties into current hosting, did you
notice a speed increase,
On 6/22/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your users will definitely notice a speed increase, if done properly. Not
all sites benefit from this kind of caching; it depends on the ratio of
information content vs application functionality, in my opinion. The
clients
of ours who are
On 6/22/07, Scott Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No they don't support .cfm pages.
That may have been true at one time, but I 'm fairly certain it's not the
case anymore.
What some FDA directorates did was build
..cfm based html generators, and then push the generated html up to
Akamai.
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From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Anyone use Akamai?
NOTE (BIG NOTE) If your website(s
No they don't support .cfm pages. What some FDA directorates
did was build ..cfm based html generators, and then push the
generated html up to Akamai.
That's a bit inaccurate. If your .cfm pages rely on infrequently-changing
content, they can certainly be cached by Akamai.
Dave Watts, CTO,
To expand on Dave's point, it's important to consider your site's content
and traffic patterns. If the content is highly dynamic, and lightweight
(few
images or other heavier media), you won't get as much bang for the buck.
You
will still see some benefits, but the cost may not be
I highly recommend giving them a call and talking it through with them.
There are a lot of different options available, and they can help you decide
which is the best way to approach your scenario.
I don't know how the front line sales people are, but the professional
services team - the folks
They are ubiquitous for a reason (and they are - you'd be hard pressed to
find many major sites who DON'T use them.)
Thanks Doug. Yeah, I'm sure they wouldn't be as huge as they are, if they
weren't doing what they do very well.
We are currently a pretty small company (approx. $5 million
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