Comments on: Comparing CDN Performance

By: Ryan Kearney

Ryan Kearney — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:29:42 +0000

I used Pingdom to monitor the response time. As to what they actually monitor, I’m not entirely sure.

By: Ryan Kearney

Ryan Kearney — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:29:00 +0000

I used Pingdom to monitor the response time. As to what they actually monitor, I'm not entirely sure.

By: Bozo

Bozo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:12:53 +0000

How do you define “response time”? Time to first byte? Time to HEAD a file? Something else?

By: Bozo

Bozo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:12:00 +0000

How do you define "response time"? Time to first byte? Time to HEAD a file? Something else?

By: Ryan Kearney

Ryan Kearney — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:09:00 +0000

Tomorrow, December 15th some time around 8PM.

By: Ryan Kearney

Ryan Kearney — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:09:00 +0000

Tomorrow, December 15th some time around 8PM.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:48:58 +0000

Ryan, I’m looking for CDN services, and I found this comparison useful. I’m looking forward to your expanded comparison of additional CDN services, is there a date you expect to publish it?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Ryan, I'm looking for CDN services, and I found this comparison useful. I'm looking forward to your expanded comparison of additional CDN services, is there a date you expect to publish it?

By: JasonM80

JasonM80 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:24:45 +0000

Great job on the comparison!

I am curious to hear about Rupert’s comparison between Azure CDN, CloudFront, and the UK-based host. I found this article which does a comparison between Azure CDN and CloudFront, though it does not address performance: http://bit.ly/8cUeFA.

As for a web-monitoring tool, one solution you might consider is Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager, which has web-monitoring capability: http://bit.ly/70JSp5. Since it is intended to do much more than web-monitoring, it might be overkill for what you are trying to do.

(I am contracted by M80, working with Microsoft to promote Windows Azure)

By: JasonM80

JasonM80 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:24:00 +0000

Great job on the comparison! I am curious to hear about Rupert's comparison between Azure CDN, CloudFront, and the UK-based host. I found this article which does a comparison between Azure CDN and CloudFront, though it does not address performance: http://bit.ly/8cUeFA. As for a web-monitoring tool, one solution you might consider is Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager, which has web-monitoring capability: http://bit.ly/70JSp5. Since it is intended to do much more than web-monitoring, it might be overkill for what you are trying to do. (I am contracted by M80, working with Microsoft to promote Windows Azure)