How jsDelivr works
I wrote a detailed article on jsDelivr and how exactly it works. Check it out and let me know if you like it. Load balancing multiple CDNs or how jsDelivr works
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jsDelivr weekly news
Here is the new changelog: * Origin moved from MaxCDN push to Rackspace Cloud Files. MaxCDN locations are now used via a Pull zone. This was done to finally allow me to enable custom HTTP headers. All CORS issues were fixed and I have now full control over HTTP headers. * Thanks to Cedexis a new more efficient load balancing algorithm was
jsDelivr News: New infrastructure and more
It's been a while since I posted news regarding jsDelivr. Let's see what happened since then: * jsDelivr moved to a new infrastructure! * It now utilizes a Multi-CDN system using Cedexis load balancing. * NetDNA and CDN.NET are the main CDN providers. All traffic is load balanced between them. * The system checks both Uptime and Performance
How to handle time consuming PHP scripts
Some times you might have to write PHP scripts that can take a long time to finish. For example create/recover backups, install CMS demos, parse large amounts of data etc... To make sure your scripts will work as expected you will need to know and remember a few things. Timeouts The first thing you have to do is to
JPEG optimization tools benchmark
Intro I have a web project that hosts more than 15.000 images of various sizes from 300kb up to 10MB. In total these images take about 8GB of space. These images are served from a small VPS with 365MB of RAM and optimized LAMP stack with Nginx as reverse proxy. Since I am a performance freak, I want to
Nginx Load Balancing Basics
Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems. Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic across multiple external and internal(on same hardware) servers. Load Balancing can come in handy when your only server can