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Originally Posted by Thurbs - NichedSites
has anyone done real studies to show the improvements gained from CDN usage versus beefing up current hosting plans?
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There have been many studies showing CDN is faster, just search online and you will find tons of information, but the most compelling I think is that this is absolutely the way mainstream has been delivering their traffic for years. Sites that use CDN today and have been doing so since the mid 90s include Amazon, Google, Apple,Microsoft, Ebay, Disney,CNN, and the list goes on and on.
Adult has not used CDN for 2 reasons. 1) It has up till now been way too expensive for programs looking to keep content lean and profit margins high, especially the way bandwidth pricing has dropped in the last 5 years. 2) there has not been a significant CDN player in quite a while who has been willing to accept adult content. The largest player Akamai shut off Adult when it went public and all the mid tear players were either bought by them or put out of business by them.
We are still offering a free trial on the Cave Creek/ Level 3 CDN why not just see for yourself. Anecdotal evidence and spreadsheets do not compete with real life experience.