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		Amazon CloudFront vs. Rackspace Cloud Files CDN Performance \| Chris Meller (chrismeller.com)
		11 points by chrismeller on Oct 23, 2009 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

byoung2 on Oct 23, 2009 | [–]

Rackspace Cloud Files CDN is powered by Limelight, which is a big player in the CDN market. Limelight has a much bigger footprint, so it is likelier that there will be an edge server closer to the end user (or Pingdom's servers).

atambo on Oct 24, 2009 | | [–]

Does pingdom ping from multiple locations?

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