[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

Whoooo, that is very nice! I like that feature very much. The issue we had (have) with SimpleCDN is that they do not have international nodes. We like the Amazon CF CDN because of their 8 CDN nodes in the US, 4 in Europe and 2 in Asia (and they continue to expand and add more). I would consider SimpleCDN if they had a global reach like CF.

I think SimpleCDN had one or two in Europe, but I don't remember exactly. But, they did have plans for expanding in the near future, so I'm sure they'll have more resources as time goes on. I figured that having even just a couple of servers spread around the U.S. was better than our single web server, which serves from only one location. Most of our traffic is U.S./Canada based, with a sizeable chunk from Europe, but we only have just a few visitors from elsewhere in the world.

SimpleCDN calls ours a Mirror Bucket. $0.039 US per GB of transfer, with no other fees for storage or setup. So last week, it cost us a whole $1.56 to deliver just over 40GB of files. Now you can see why we like it. Since I have some usage stats, I should compare the costs to Amazon CF.

One thing some users may not like is that SimpleCDN is evolving...quickly. When I signed up over a month ago, the services had different names, but now they have reverted back to their "bucket" naming for their service levels. Their pricing has changed for Mirror Buckets too, although in a good way: once you deliver so much content, your pricing drops to a lower tier. My only fear is that there will be a price JUMP, and knock it out of affordability. But heck, they give you $15 in "play money" to try it out for free. That's why I'm not ruling out Amazon--if anything should happen and we need to host these files somewhere else, I'd like to be prepared with a backup plan.