Is there an easy way to enable the use of CDN (Content Delivery Network) with IPB?

I suggest storing style files, and maybe some of the javascript files on the CDN. :)

Just to add to vrtsolus, store all your forum images also there too. To enable the use of CDN is pretty easy. Just set up a subdomain like images.domain.com to your CDN and then enter this subdomain into the Image URL setting under General Configuration in your admin cp. Your all set for using the CDN for serving your forum's images. Note this is for your site images, such as images used for your forum skin and such.

Just to add to vrtsolus, store all your forum images also there too. To enable the use of CDN is pretty easy. Just set up a subdomain like images.domain.com to your CDN and then enter this subdomain into the Image URL setting under General Configuration in your admin cp. Your all set for using the CDN for serving your forum's images. Note this is for your site images, such as images used for your forum skin and such.

Only thing is that for a lot of people they will need to go through the css files and make sure every file will redirect properly.

Only thing is that for a lot of people they will need to go through the css files and make sure every file will redirect properly.

It shouldn't be a issue unless they didn't use the image directory variable and hard linked it.

So anyone using CDN here? And which CDN is best in your experience?



Thank you.

I've had good experience with both Edgecast and Highwinds. I use both for two different projects. Edgecast has superior delivery in the Asia Pacific area, but tend to nickel/dime you for stuff. Highwinds has good US/Europe delivery, but nothing in APAC. They're more inclusive.

I've currently set up MaxCDN for one of our clients and it definitely makes a difference. Apart from the edits in the ACP I would suggest using an htaccess to redirect some files that are hard linked in. We previously tried putting up a image server but a CDN definitely helps!

I've currently set up MaxCDN for one of our clients and it definitely makes a difference. Apart from the edits in the ACP I would suggest using an htaccess to redirect some files that are hard linked in. We previously tried putting up a image server but a CDN definitely helps!

I set up MaxCDN for images (which uses the /public directory) and for uploads. It seems as though their server passes requests through for files above the 10MB limit on pull zones.

What is awesome about MaxCDN is that it is cheap (right now $39.95 for 1TB of traffic.. that's a one time cost until you use it all), and because it can PULL content directly from your server I set up my site as follows:

http://up.mysite.com/ -> Set to use /uploads as the root document directory
http://pub.mysite.com/ -> Set to use /public as the root document directory

Then I created two special CDN subdomains on MaxCDN through their control panel using what they refer to as a "Pull Zone":
http://uploads.mysite.com/ -> Uses http://up.mysite.com/ as the origin server
http://public.mysite.com/ -> Uses http://pub.mysite.com/ as the origin server


After that I just had to use "http://public.mysite.com/" as the images url, and "http://uploads.mysite.com" as the uploads url..

It was just that easy and I have content being uploaded to servers across the U.S. and in Europe.. while MaxCDN doesn't fully offer global coverage yet, you can definitely get some load off your servers without much work and minimal costs.

Cool I'll try that. A question, can we use CDN for IP.Downloads and forum images?


Also is it possible for you to make a guide / tutorial (article / video) on how to use CDN with IPS products?



Thank you.

but how do you CDN JS and CSS? :unsure:

Hi,

I'm testing this same setup with MaxCDN and it's working great.
For JS and CSS, since I'm running the minify version, I just created a cache zone with nginx and serving then as static files from my server. It's very fast this way.

To use css and js with the cdn I think you must edit the template files, but i haven't tested ... I have not much knowledge to IPS products yet.