posted 03/27/2012 by chris, comments: 0 comments
Cedexis Radar provides real time insight into the HTTP Response time and HTTP Throughput (measured in KBPS) of over 50 providers including every major CDN and an increasing number of regional players. The historical results are available free to anyone in our Free Data section and can be useful as a vendor selection tool. With
posted 03/15/2012 by chris, comments: 1 comments
Last week, Windows Azure cloud struggled. Today, several availability zones in Amazon AWS US-East region went down i (US-EAST-1). Here is Cedexis Radar detected in real time… [First edition of this article : 09:50 UTC] As of Thu Mar 15 09:46:21 UTC 2012, Cedexis Radar has detected what appears to be an outage at 3
posted 02/12/2012 by chris, comments: 0 comments
Collecting a billion measurements a day from over 30,000 networks provides insight I wish I’d had when managing hosted security operations at my previous job. We had over 2,500 physical and virtual instances across 3 main data centers. Each data center was, of course, multi-homed and we bought transit and peering from a redundant set
posted 01/16/2012 by chris, comments: 0 comments
Cedexis Openmix is the Load Balancer of the future: adaptive, intelligent and scriptable . To demonstrate the power of Openmix we’ve published several examples in the Openmix Application Library. However, with great power comes great responsibility so we need a testing tool capable of harnessing and double checking each application. Simply writing an Openmix Application
posted 11/09/2011 by chris, comments: 3 comments
Cedexis Radar data consistently show that Edgecast is one of the best CDNs around, especially in North America and Asia where their availability and HTTP Response time scores put them in the top 3 or 4. However, no CDN is perfect everywhere and certainly not all the time. Edgecast in particular has had some recent intermittent
posted 11/09/2011 by chris, comments: 2 comments
Cedexis collects (as of this writing) nearly a billion measurements a day from visitors to our customer’s web sites. This comes with a real responsibility both to follow good privacy practices and to have a third party audit our practices. I am pleased to announce that we have completed our first yearly audit with an
posted 09/23/2011 by chris, comments: 0 comments
Here at Cedexis, we receive more than 800 million measurements a day via the Cedexis Radar tag from browsers located all over the world. These data can answer all sorts of questions, including – “how effective is geo-location as part of a global performance strategy?” If we read the various white papers it would appear