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0 pointsnoelwelsh13y ago0 comments

Rackspace CDN says this:

"Rackspace uses 213 of Akamai's edge locations, selected especially for our customers' typical usage patterns, and designed to cover all major areas of the globe." http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files/

Akamai has approximately 5 gazillion edge locations, so yes, it is a cut down version. It is still a lot more POPs than just about every other CDN, though this doesn't necessarily translate into performance.

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currysausage13y ago

Ah, thank you. That info wasn't there when I conducted the tests: http://web.archive.org/web/20120915095343/http://www.rackspa...?

"though this doesn't necessarily translate into performance" - Yes, even when the files were already cached, I wasn't always satisfied with the performance.

A detail that bugged me, by the way, was the high number of CNAME requests, although this should at worst affect the first view.

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