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I am currently testing a website where users can upload images and they will be uploaded to the sites CDN at cdn.domain.com/1/username/2/filename.png
If you try to upload most file types that aren’t images for example .txt files you are gi… Continue reading Where are these files uploaded to?
A query for information regarding the identity of their web server should be available. Actually, it should be public record. I can’t imagine keeping results out of a whois query would hide anything when you can just type domain into a bro… Continue reading Why is the domain fbi.gov not listed for any whois searches? Furthermore, when a traceroute was run the domain query returned a cloudflare owned IP [closed]
Microsoft has announced a revamped version of Azure Front Door,… Continue reading Microsoft’s Revamped Azure Front Door CDN Offers Two New Tiers
Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives. MwareTV … Continue reading World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai
Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives. MwareTV provides content delivery solutions designed for the TV platforms of today and tomorrow — a web brimming with rich media and millions of users that demand high-quality content in an instant. MwareTV partnered with Akamai to provide state-of-the-art technology that enables the efficient performance of streaming content to entertain, connect, and empower global viewers. Continue reading World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai
I humbly assume that DDoS is very unlikely to happen to my website.
A CDN that should protect from it slows my website according to my personal experience and tests (perhaps only because of the strange demand to have all webpages redirecte… Continue reading DDoS might be very unlikely to happen to my website but in any case a CDN that should protect from it slows my website
Cloudfront supports adding external origins, i.e. domains that are not S3 buckets or ALBs. This led me to wonder whether adding domains that are not owned by the entity as an origin could allow for intercept the request payload, and potent… Continue reading Can a Man-in-the-Middle-Attack be achieved by adding a cloudfront distribution origin of a domain not owned by me?
Any PaaS/shared hosting company which I came across offers its customers to protect their websites from DDoS via security-oriented CDNs such as CloudFlare or CloudFront which act as a proxy distributing the content serving via various mach… Continue reading Is the idea of a hosting provider with built-in DDoS protection plausible?
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network (eCDN) that was bundled with the cloud solution. We demonstrated that stacking CDNs — adding Akamai’s Ion solution on top of the eCDN — could significantly improve performance as well as provide the client with much greater control over its delivery configuration Continue reading Stacking CDNs for Improved Performance and Security
Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 … Continue reading Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform