Articles Tagged cdn

When we saw Chris put up a list of cloud-hosted data-stores, we couldn't resist letting him know that we also had one of those, only ours is a fully featured CMS that come with a rich query language and an open source, real time, collaborative authoring tool that you can tailor to your specific needs using React. It's called Sanity.io.

“Add us to your list!” we asked Chris. “No, your stuff is interesting, can’t you write about you… Read article

Perhaps you've heard of HTTP/2? It's not just an idea, it's a real technology and slowly but surely, hosting companies and CDN services have been releasing it to their servers. Much has been said about the benefits of using HTTP/2 instead of HTTP1.x, but the proof the the pudding is in the eating.

Today we're going to perform a few real-world tests, perform some timings and see what results we can extract out of all this.… Read article

If you’ve been working around web development for a while, you’ll know that the web has a need for speed. The truth is simple: speed matters and faster is considered better.

One "easy win" for increasing performance is using a CDN. We’ve discussed this several times at CSS-Tricks. It's easy in that you aren't rewriting a codebase or hand-editing content, but it's an area of performance many of us might overlook because, well, hosting, servers and cPanels, oh my!

Thankfully, … Read article

At the agency I work for, we recently put all ~1,100 of our sites behind a CDN. It seems to be working. Unfortunately, I have no idea why or how we did this. Therefore, in the first part of this article, I force our CTO, Joshua Lynch, to explain the process to me. This has the unintended consequence of Josh suggesting I try this on my own website, a process I'll narrate for the second half of the article.… Read article