29 posts in "Web performance"

French presidential election: websites of media on the front line

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,

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Cedexis launches Internet performance reporting tool

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,

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Key performance takeaways from Cloud Connect 2012

posted 02/23/2012 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments

This year’s Cloud Connect crowd converged on Santa Clara to talk performance, our favorite topic, at the Cloud Performance Summit.  For those who weren’t able to make it, attendees included Alistair Croll from BitCurrent, Adrian Cockroft from NetFlix, Lori Mac Vittie from F5 and a who’s who from the internet community at large. I took away

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Which Clouds have the best peering in the US?

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

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Openmix Application Library: upgrades and plans

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

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Add Another Comma

posted 01/12/2012 by Megan, comments: 0 comments

One Billion! Cedexis history was made yesterday, when we passed the 1 billion mark in daily recorded Public Radar measurements. Over one billion (1,060,620,742 to be exact) pieces of public website performance data were recorded for Jan 11th, 2012. Why is this number important? Well, perhaps the number itself is not, but the fact that

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Real-life case : How to manage a “Slashdot effect” with Cedexis

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

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