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Content Delivery Networks (CDN) - a comprehensive list of providers (mytestbox.com)
13 points by mg1313 on Sept 25, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


I wish that all these CDNs would list their prices on the sites so you can actually compare them.


I think its one of those "if you have to ask... you can't afford it" kind of situations.


http://www.simplecdn.com/ (from the list) seems substantially cheaper than Amazon S3 if your bandwidth/storage ratio is high enough (actually typical for serving web content). They also have price comparisons with other CDNs, including Akamai and such whose pricing is not public:

http://www.simplecdn.com/savings


Dan Rayburn has a great blog talking about CDN's.: http://blog.streamingmedia.com


So hard to know who to pick.. there's just not much info out there. Personally I'm waiting for the Amazon CDN launch: http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/aws-content-d...


if you want to try google app engine as CDN, visit www.digitalistic.com/2008/06/09/10-easy-steps-to-use-google-app-engine-as-your-own-cdn/ great trick




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