Seeking your wisdom on configuring KeyCDN with StackIdeas software
By Sean Carney on Saturday, 21 January 2017
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Hello Mark,

I believe I will be going with keycdn to replace my current Amazon CloudFront CDN.

I know that you recommend CacheFly first but it looks like the entering cost is $500 per month and we do not have that type of a budget since we do not have a financial model to recoup the costs.

My question for you is: How would you suggest is the best way to set up and configure the CDN. There are a LOT of options:

CDN for Joomla from Regular Labs

JoomlaBamboo Template Buildr Colourshift2 settings has Enable CDN option (When enabled the javascript file is loaded from the url specified. You need to use a 3rd party service to move the file to your cdn or do this manually. The javascript file can be located in the js/ folder of this template.)

Components -> EasyBlog -> Settings -> System (Enable CDN and enter CDN url)

Components -> EasyDisucss -> Settings -> Advanced (Enable CDN and enter CDN url)

Components -> EasySocial -> Settings -> General -> System (Enter CDN url)

Components -> Komento -> Settings -> System (Enter CDN url)


My question is whether I should fill in the data in all these places or maybe just set it up once in the CDN for Joomla plugin and then not set it up in the other locations?

I was not planning to make multiple pull zones to keep things simple but would do that if you think it is best.

example:
a pull zone for css and js files
a pull zone for images, etc...

Your recommendations would be greatly appreciated and probably followed as well. :-)

Thanks, Sean
Hello Sean,

You could try placing them in CDN For Joomla as it should work automatically without you needing to set anything in our extensions I am not too sure about Joomla bamboo though but I am guessing that CDN For Joomla would suffice.

The reason being that CDN For Joomla actually scans through the entire page and try to replace all known urls (your site url) with the cdn url. Unless the scripts are injected to the page using a mechanism that CDN For Joomla is unable to search due to it's algorithm.
Mark
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Saturday, 21 January 2017 14:05
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I did set it up in CDN for Joomla and did not set it up anywhere else and it seems to be working fine. Although I was surprised to see my page become slower instead of faster for me here in the US. I need to keep trying to improve the site speed for sure.

Sean
Sean Carney
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Sunday, 22 January 2017 09:34
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CDN does not speed up the site just for you alone. The purpose of a CDN is to offload your assets (css, images, js) into a POP server that is closest to your users.

For instance, your servers are hosted in America while we are here in Asia. For us to load your site (without a CDN), those assets files are being served from America and it's going to be slow for us. With a CDN and if your CDN provider supports POP servers on Asia (Most likely in Singapore), those assets files will now be served from their Asia POP and it would be faster for us.
Mark
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Sunday, 22 January 2017 14:11
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I am grateful for your recommendation. I am using KeyCDN with CDN for Joomla and it is working well.
Sean Carney
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Friday, 27 January 2017 11:49
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Hi there,

You are most welcome. Glad to hear that your issue has been resolved now.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.
Abdul Warith Norudin
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Friday, 27 January 2017 12:06
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