MetaCDN is an Australian company which combines the CDN networks of Amazon Cloudfront, Fastly and Verizon’s EdgeCast into a single service.
The package looks like any other CDN, and there’s no extra setup work involved. You sign up once, point MetaCDN at your files or origin server, and it’s ready to accelerate your site.
The differences are all in the detail. When a visitor requests your site or file, MetaCDN is able to choose from Cloudfront, Fastly and EdgeCast locations: more than 120 in total. It selects the fastest provider for any region, improving performance. And if one CDN or location goes down, MetaCDN simply routes your traffic elsewhere, enabling the service to guarantee a 100% uptime.
Features include origin pull (the CDN fetches files from your server when they’re first requested), origin push (they’re uploaded in advance), a quick purge that dumps cache objects with a click, and a REST API to automate tasks.
There are a few issues. MetaCDN can only support features of a CDN which are common to all three, for instance. Fastly provides some very powerful tools for working with HTTP headers, but you can’t apply those to …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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