Amazon S3 Cloudfront CDN?

[පැටියා]

Is it worth using Amazon S3 CloudFront as a CDN (Content Delivery Network) for a website (Wordpress).
I'm planning to use it as a CDN for images to increase the performance and to save bandwidth.

 

[Ayeshlive]

Their charges are affordable and cheap to almost every generic host machan. But IMO it will add extra overhead to your wordpress site to push (or authenticate pulls, whichever method you use) static content to AWS.

If you are using EC instance, go for it.
When purchasing, choose their Japan or Singapore locations.

 

[GTRZ]

Yes it is, If that website earning enough money to spend on a CDN

 

[පැටියා]

Their charges are affordable and cheap to almost every generic host machan. But IMO it will add extra overhead to your wordpress site to push (or authenticate pulls, whichever method you use) static content to AWS.

If you are using EC instance, go for it.
When purchasing, choose their Japan or Singapore locations.

Machan I'm not well aware of their services. Please explain what EC does and what's the use of choosing JP or Singapore? As far as I know they serve requests from the server which is nearest to the client.

Thanks for the help

 

[පැටියා]

Yes it is, If that website earning enough money to spend on a CDN

Thanks Big Bro

 

[Ayeshlive]

Machan I'm not well aware of their services. Please explain what EC does and what's the use of choosing JP or Singapore? As far as I know they serve requests from the server which is nearest to the client.

Thanks for the help

EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud. It's a service to host your sites on whatever OS you want, and whatever language you want.
If your site is hosted on an AWS EC2 instance (Singapore), and your static data (images, videos, and other assets) are hosted in same data center, now you can make a good use of it.

Basically if you are planning to move to AWS, do it in bulk.
If you are paying too much for a dedicated server plus some incremental price for the bandwidth, Amazon could be much much cheaper.

When someone requests an asset, data is transferred thru many hops. More the hops in between, slower the transfer would be. That's why speedtest.net chooses the closest server to you.

I have personally used S3 for some regulat backup (now Glacier is better) and some client sites. Nothing else than an impressive service.

Also, if you rely on a GUI, you will find it a little difficult to get started. YOu have to setup ssh keys and whatnot crap.

 

[පැටියා]

EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud. It's a service to host your sites on whatever OS you want, and whatever language you want.
If your site is hosted on an AWS EC2 instance (Singapore), and your static data (images, videos, and other assets) are hosted in same data center, now you can make a good use of it.

Basically if you are planning to move to AWS, do it in bulk.
If you are paying too much for a dedicated server plus some incremental price for the bandwidth, Amazon could be much much cheaper.

When someone requests an asset, data is transferred thru many hops. More the hops in between, slower the transfer would be. That's why speedtest.net chooses the closest server to you.

I have personally used S3 for some regulat backup (now Glacier is better) and some client sites. Nothing else than an impressive service.

Also, if you rely on a GUI, you will find it a little difficult to get started. YOu have to setup ssh keys and whatnot crap.

So u r saying that I can get maximum out of it if I host the entire website with AWS? :O
Lack of GUI thing is a big trouble for me bro.
Also SSH is a old school thing IMO
AWS doesn't provide 1 click script installations as most of the Cpanel hostings offer. So I have to play little with AWS to get used to it.

Thanks for helping me