Supercharge Website Performance With AWS S3 and CloudFront
I wrote this tutorial for net.tutsplus.com
We live in a world where people are increasingly expecting more and faster speeds. In fractions of a second, your website can lose valuable visitors and in turn, money. Although most people think CDNs are for the “big dogs”, they’re actually super cheap and incredibly easy to use these days.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to setup and use Amazon’s Web Services S3 and CloudFront to decrease website load time as well as show the performance differences.
Continue reading at http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/general/supercharge-website-performance-with-aws-s3-and-cloudfront/
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It is a great tutorial with lots of pics and explanations. But it’s clearly seen how costly CDN is for an average webmaster. It’s obvious that the service isn’t a necessity for sites that have been just launched. In your point of view, what is the minimum number of uniques when it’s the right time to sign up for a CDN service?
It just depends on what you need for the site and what you want to do with it.