Popular Los Angeles-based provider MaxCDN has been accelerating website performance since 2009. The company is now owned by StackPath, which offers an enhanced version of the CDN, but at the moment MaxCDN is also providing products under its own name.
MaxCDN’s core network covers North America (8 edge locations), Europe (3, plus two in London) and South America (Sao Paolo). You can add five additional locations – Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Israel – for an extra $15 (£11) a month.
The service supports all the core features you’d expect: origin pull (the CDN fetches and caches files as required); origin push (you send your files to the CDN); GZip compression; real-time cache purging; free shared SSL, or your own custom SSL certificate; detailed real-time reporting, and a comprehensive web dashboard to tie it all together.
MaxCDN’s custom EdgeRules provide all kinds of configuration options. You can force the use of HTTPS connections, block or redirect by country or referrer, redirect bots from the CDN to your origin, hide headers to minimise transferred data, and more. You’re able to create and manage separate caches, perhaps one for desktops and another for mobile …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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