Stephen’s World

Content Delivery

Something I found today which is really handy is you can use the Google App Engine as your own little Content Delivery Network.

Having been playing a little with the Firebug Extension called YSlow that does the Yahoo! tests to see if a web site is optimized, I was looking at the whole CDN thing as I couldn’t get a decent score with it without it.

So looking around I found some Commercial CDN, an open source one or two, then I found a nice blog post about how to use Google App Engine to make your own CDN..

So bish bash boom, 10 mins later the Virus.Org CDN was born and serving off the virusdot.org domain which I already had registered within Google Apps.