With MaxCDN in the loop, we had random failures from various areas, and their support was rather anemic. Their UI had bugs which made our zones uneditable, and the whole experience was slightly better than nothing.
I've replaced it with a Ramdisk cache for my assets, served out of nginx, and it performs -dramatically- better.
Granted, that won't be possible for all workloads, but for me, it was a dramatic difference.
yup, we only do around 200 to 250GB a month. We use them to serve very small files. We switching from AWS as they charge per request, whereas MaxCDN do not.
We love posthaven too, already migrated several thousand posts across ten blogs, and have all the video transcoding, storage, deep link protection, and delivery features they'd need, at less cost than a stack of providers.
So Garry has more than one fan CDN he can choose from. ;-)
I like the idea of Posthaven, but the academic research lab I used to work with can't afford to move its ~10 Posterous blogs to Posthaven at $5 each per month.
One of the nice things about Posterous was that you could create new blogs freely to clearly separate different projects within an organization. Charging per-blog removes this affordance and we're back to the Wordpress-style monolithic blog.
I can't find anyway to contact the Posthaven guys about this.
Hey yeah email us garry@posthaven.com -- it's not per blog though, it's per account (10 blogs per account at $5/mo) -- sorry for the confusion.
The other thing we were thinking of doing is having "contributor" accounts per blog -- so each blog is owned by the primary admin, but contributors can contribute without a paying account.
Need custom CSS or at least logo linked to one's main site, need contribs, and need posting API. Thrilled with migration and performance so far. Hope you can get branding available before that countdown clock zeros!
In my opinion, Tumblr has far more endurance than Posterous ever did. Tumblr is a social hegemon and is making money, neither of which could be accomplished to any meaningful extent by Posterous.
Even if it was acquired, it's far too valuable of a property to simply be shut down.
does posthaven have mp3 file size limit? tumblr's limit is around 10MB.
or, is there a user friendly blog authoring form interface that publishes pages and uploaded media to S3, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace Cloud File, .. etc?
Personally, I love Quora of late. There is a huge audience there already (that are actually intelligent and I care about). There are tags for everything and comments and up/down votes, not to mention the real time aspect of everything.
So, if I want to write anything (thats not really technical), I'd probably use Quora at this point. Quora is all about content anyway, so your content a'int going anywhere. The ability to create new blog on Quora is pretty good too.
I feel bad about their aggressive user acquisition strategy needing everyone to sign up to even view the content and I wish they were much more open; but despite that, the platform, content there and the people there are too good for me to consider looking anywhere else for general writing.
