posted 05/09/2012 by Nicolas, comments: 0 comments
May 6, 2012 will remain a historic day in France. France’s new president-elect was chosen. The French election highlighted the importance of the Internet as one of the main ways for retrieving information, debating, exchanging, and sharing through social networks in real-time – and from various locations, using multiple types of devices (laptop, tablet, smartphone,
posted 04/16/2012 by Nicolas, comments: 0 comments
« Which Cloud and/or CDN shall I chose for better delivery of my content and applications in a specific country? » It’s a question all IT decision-makers ask themselves. To start answering it, Cedexis proposes a new data visualization interface available on our website. Every day Cedexis publishes new country-by-country reports on the performance of IT providers (Hosting Companies,
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 03/01/2012 by Nicolas, comments: 0 comments
For most people Brazil means the beautiful beach of Rio de Janeiro, the carnival, the fiesta… A great country where life is sweet. As my colleague Ed explained in an article a few weeks ago, Brazil is also a place of tremendous economic growth. Logically the IT sector plays a leading role in this booming
posted 12/23/2011 by Nicolas, comments: 0 comments
The biggest fear of numerous website managers is a sudden boost in traffic load that can quickly shut down the hosting environment at origin. This kind of incident happens when an ad campaign is launched, a link is published on website with a strong audience (thus the “Slashdot” effect) or when a TV show is
posted 11/28/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
Our friends at NetDNA are having a Cyber Monday deal that looks hard to resist. The deal is probably better than any Groupon deal that you’ve seen. $1 for the first TB — 98% savings! According to the pricing page, the regular price in US and Europe would be $61.44 for the first TB of traffic But
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 11/07/2011 by Nicolas, comments: 0 comments
“We have just made a change to a DNS record for getpersonas.com affecting its CDN usage, and thought we’d share some of our findings as to it’s worldwide traffic patterns…” Read more about this customer experience on (the excellent) Mozilla IT & Operations blog
posted 10/28/2011 by Marty Kagan, comments: 0 comments
My PR team tells me that nobody reads Friday afternoon blog posts, so this seems like the perfect time to publish something that will only be interesting to a very small number of people (hello jad! hello mnot!). A customer asked me this morning how various CDN providers handle HTTP headers, so I ran a
posted 10/28/2011 by Marty Kagan, comments: 0 comments
Philosophically, our goal is to show companies how fast they could be, by leveraging an effective multi-platform strategy. We’ve playing around with the idea of replacing our public charts with a set of Country Reports which answer a specific set of questions. Here’s an example for France… ISP Marketshare: Where are my end-users (most likely