Channel surfers and the irresistible rise of Content Delivery Networks

TL:DR Snore...

If your content isn’t instant, in that five/ten/fifteen seconds (or worse) the chances are a good portion of your audience has gotten sick of waiting and gone elsewhere.

Try telling that one to the Daily Mail. By the time one of their pages has loaded with Celebrity Tits and Arses I've forgotten why I clicked on the link in the first place... I should mention I was not distracted by the Celebrity Tits and Arses.

"Most of us are using CDNs every day, and probably don’t even realise it."

I see them all all the time because with NoScript you have to allow them one by one before correctly getting some js and see the page content.

Other uses for CDN's

is to deliver Adverts, tracking sites and other nasties

Just because the URL has cloudfare in it, it does not mean that it is safe to let through all the time.

Nas any CDN been hacked for Man in the middle attcks. IMHO these sites are ideal for traffic interception.

just saying,

Bef careful out there, it is a jungle

Ah I wondered what a CDN was.

Also, when I clicked on this article I thought it was going to be about those chappies who offer to create your content for you.

Another thing Adobe seems to screw up

If you’ve downloaded a piece of software from Adobe or Apple, then you’ve been using the Akamai Content Delivery Network.

Except everytime we update iTunes for the corporate iPhone fleet, we have no problems, everytime we try Adobe Flash or Reader installer, it throws up a connection error. Every other site using Akamai runs fine, so I'm going to stick with Adobe screwing it all up.

Meh

I'd say, put the video on the slowest tier of your network, could even be on tape. Save that flash storage space for ads, this seems to be the way that youtube operates...