MaxCDN has Pull Zones which do the same job as SimpleCDN's Mirror Buckets. Try them. They're also working on a vBulletin plugin, but it's taking a long time.

Thanks so much for that. How does MaxCDN compare with SimpleCDN in terms of performance and reliability? They seem very competitively priced.

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Do you have an example .htaccess rule that you are using, and where you are putting it? I'd love to leverage mod_rewrite for as much of my redirection as possible.

But they charge 10cents per GB, expensive.

http://www.maxcdn.com/pricing.php

Considering its performance is significantly better than SimpleCDN, and it is offering 1000 GB for $10 for introductory sign-ups, I definitely think it's worth taking it out for a spin.

User Album Pictures
Back to CDN -- I noticed that User Album Pictures, even when stored in the file system, are still actually served by the script (they are .picture datafiles, and the script decompresses them). Does this mean that one cannot put pictures from the user albums on the Live! or Pull CDNs? This is strange because I am still able to serve attachment files (which are rewritten considerably) through the CDN.

I just signed up with maxcdn. I'm very interesting to see how this will affect the site.

Any tips for setting up with MaxCDN? (I am still on Vb 3.8.5)

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I have signed up for MaxCDN today...

And I am having an issue with replacement variables...

I want to change images/smilies to cdn1.myserver.com/smilies but when I do this what is sent by the server is http://www.myserver.com/cdn1.myserver.com/smilies

If I tell it to change images/smilies to http://cdn1.myserver.com/smilies it is sent by the server as http://www.myserver.com/http://cdn1....er.com/smilies.

How do I keep it from putting in my servers domain name before the replacement?

Thanks!

The The UNIX and Linux Forums are now using MaxCDN (switched from SimpleCDN). There is an August 4th, 2010 blog post about their initial impressions of MaxCDN: http://www.unix.com/blog/2010/08/ini...s-with-maxcdn/. ------------------ Regarding this query above: in vBulletin, the URL for Smilies are set in the AdminCP.

I signed up for MaxCDN and having a few troubles getting it working on my site (which uses vBSEO). A few issues that are cropping up:

1. All sort of issues with the icons for edit post, reply to post, etc. aren't showing up., but it appears their alt tags appear instead.
2. The attachment manager kicks back a security token error.
3. Edit posts, reply posts buttons don't work on first click -- requires a second click.

Everything works properly when I remove portions of the replacement variables outlined by MaxCDN.

Their support hasn't been help at all.

Any suggestions.

We have no problem with MaxCDN for vBulletin and certainly do not rely on their support staff for vB integration.

The problem you are having is with your knowledge of how to move content to a CDN. It has nothing to do with MaxCDN (or any CDN) for that matter.

If you don't understand how your content is served, then you will have trouble with moving content to any CDN.

Correct. I do need help and was simply pointing out that MaxCDN offers limited support. I have not doubt it can/will work, but it's not easy or I'd have it working by now.

If you have any suggestions beyond the wiki, I'd love to learn more about your set up and what might be the cause of my setup problems.