Am getting good exposure to Drupal land and am loving it so far. I have to be hands on for my work and that is the best way to gain knowledge and expertise - be hands on, nothing beats it!
The current speed of www.oyestyle.com is pretty good, but I wanted to be armed for the day we hit bigger numbers :), so I was testing out the possibility of using a CDN to serve out the static javascript, css and image stuff on the site.
First, I also looked at some Indian CDN offerings. Obviously if the data is being served from close to India, it will help the target audience. But both Airtel and Tata offerings seem to be out of the reach of people who are just starting out. I also checked out the Marcellus guys, but they seem to specialize only in videos. Am thinking and looking at MaxCDN guys currently.
Anyways, the article is about setting up a CDN quickly. For this, we are planning to use the Parallel module. It is not strictly a CDN module per se, but what it does is that it allows you to specify [sub]domains that you can use for your js/css/image files. The page preprocessor code then replaces all references with those domains. This is all you need to do to set it up!
If you have a pull-based CDN like MaxCDN on the other side, then you do not have to upload any files to it too. If it cannot find the file, the cdn will fetch it from my server and then serve it from then on. It will handle this transparently! Will get back with my experience soon :)
Monday, October 11, 2010
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