Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
David Cancel and I have had sort of a passing vague, same space and thought process, living in the same Metropolitan area kind of distant acquaintance for about the same year.
About 2-3 months ago, he wrote a pair of articles discussing the efforts he has undertaken in order to try and offload some of the [...]
In: Life
30 Dec 2006I have set up a test to check the performance of the CoralCDN network against that of the origin server. You can view the comparative results here.
The tests used the base HTML document of this blog as the target.
The results so far indicate that there is a slight performance penalty when using CoralCDN in an ad [...]
In: smp
2 Sep 2005American Red Cross:
I know you have other things on your plate right now, but you seem to have a DNS problem.
redcross.org. 86400 IN NS arcdns3.redcross.org.
redcross.org. [...]
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28 Jun 2005Geek News Central is reporting that their server is getting crushed with all the new iTunes 4.9 users. You had to know this would happen. People have heard the buzz and want to hear what it’s all about.
From a Web performance perspective, podcasts are hellish: large, uncompressible binary files. At least they are able to [...]
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16 May 2005Tony Goodson riffs on an idea that Doc Searls threw out there this weekend.
This post brings back very painful memories of looking for jobs in Canada. Every time that I applied for a position, no matter how low in the food chain, the hiring process felt designed to make me feel inferior, especially since I [...]
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21 Apr 2005The folks at NYU Secure Computing Services have developed a really cool open-source content distribution network (CDN) called CORAL.
This looks as though it has potential for us low-bandwidth hosters who get blasted when our content gets Scobelized or Slashdotted.
Via Jon Udell.
In: Life
4 Mar 2005Today has not been a good day in our house.
Samantha flamed someone from the Canadian Revenue Agency who called us looking for money that they already have in their possession…to the tune of $45K (CDN). They have had our money tied up for a year. And there is little chance that we will see it [...]
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2 Jan 2005Why should you donate to the Canadian Red Cross?
The Canadian Federal Government is matching all private donations dollar for dollar
Your US dollar is worth $1.24 (CDN)
Go Canada!
Akamai, C&W Settle Patent Dispute
Not that it matters much anymore, as Akamai won this battle long ago, and C&W has become a smaller niche player. You have to look deep into the bowels of the C&W site to find any mention of their CDN offering.