That's a valid point, thanks!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Nicholas Tang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicholas.tang@livestream.com">nicholas.tang@livestream.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The 2nd option defeats most of the purpose of a CDN.<div><br></div><div>Nicholas<br clear="all"><div> <span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Ilan Berkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iberkner@gmail.com" target="_blank">iberkner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>At this time we're delivering static content, in particular, audio files ~5K in size directly through our server, for a number of reasons, we're looking at moving delivery of these files to a remote storage / CDN facility.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Question re. URL requests for these files. Currently, these file are served through a request like this: <a href="http://www.ourdomain.com/sounds/a/alpha.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.ourdomain.com/sounds/a/alpha.mp3</a>. If we switched to a remote storage / CDN solution, the URL of course would change to something else. There are 2 options ( I think ):</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Modify the application code to make the the call directly to the new URL.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Instruct Nginx through a location clause to redirect such traffic to another URL, for example:</div>
<div><br></div><div>location /sounds/*.mp3 {</div><div> rewrite <a href="http://www.cdn.com/$1" target="_blank">http://www.cdn.com/$1</a> ...</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a preferred way or does it matter? I guess the first option would probably be preferred as it further reduces the work load done by the server, even as simple as parsing the URL... Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, does anyone have a recommendation / experience with any particular remote storage / CDN such as Rackspace CloudFile, Amazon S3, Limelight, CacheFly, etc?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div>
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