That's a valid point, thanks!

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Nicholas Tang
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> The 2nd option defeats most of the purpose of a CDN.
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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Ilan Berkner <iberkner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At this time we're delivering static content, in particular, audio files
>> ~5K in size directly through our server, for a number of reasons, we're
>> looking at moving delivery of these files to a remote storage / CDN
>> facility.
>>
>> Question re. URL requests for these files. Currently, these file are
>> served through a request like this:
>> http://www.ourdomain.com/sounds/a/alpha.mp3. If we switched to a remote
>> storage / CDN solution, the URL of course would change to something else.
>> There are 2 options ( I think ):
>>
>> 1. Modify the application code to make the the call directly to the new
>> URL.
>>
>> 2. Instruct Nginx through a location clause to redirect such traffic to
>> another URL, for example:
>>
>> location /sounds/*.mp3 {
>> rewrite http://www.cdn.com/$1 ...
>> }
>>
>> Is there a preferred way or does it matter? I guess the first option
>> would probably be preferred as it further reduces the work load done by the
>> server, even as simple as parsing the URL... Any thoughts / suggestions
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Also, does anyone have a recommendation / experience with any particular
>> remote storage / CDN such as Rackspace CloudFile, Amazon S3, Limelight,
>> CacheFly, etc?
>>
>> Thanks
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