Re: Anyone use content distribution networks?

Ian Suttle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.web
Message-ID <[email protected]>
What sort of content are you serving?  Will it only be web traffic, or
files as well?  

Akamai has a way of caching segments of your pages which you declare
with tags.  For all other content it will pass the request to your page,
then slap together your response and the cached segments, and return to
the user.  I believe this is called ESI if I remember correctly.
Utilizing ESI your domain must point to Akamai and Akamai requests from
you via a new domain such as origin.mysite.com.

In my experience caching has worked well for some cases, personalized
content not being one of them.  Caching personalized content can
exponentially grow your memory demands.  I would recommend output
caching controls when possible, and object caching as a second option,
both for non-personalized content (unless you have a large distributed
caching layer).  Control Output caching has shown to outperform object
caching in our implementations, although there is place for both
methods.

If you have any more specific questions feel free to email off-list to
[email protected]

Thanks,
Ian Suttle
http://www.iansuttle.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Vallelunga
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] Anyone use content distribution networks?

I'm faced with handling some very large peak traffic on a site and I'm
looking into using some CDNs such as Akamai to provide the extra
bandwidth and responsiveness. I haven't found a lot online about dealing
with the convergence of caching and ssl/aspx pages. My aspx pages nearly
all have some sort of personalization and dynamic content on them. Can
someone point me in the right direction? I have some ideas, but would
love to hear from someone who's been here before.

Thanks,

Brian

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