Noblogs has its own CDN

As you should know by now, we are working hard on speeding up noblogs lately, in particular we are focusing on the page load time for our users. As I described in a preceding post, we created a sharded setup for noblogs, which allowed us to radically reduce page generation times. Thus we decided the next step would be implementing a noblogs-wide CDN. In this post I’ll explain you what is a CDN, why we decided to build our own CDN, and how we technically did it.

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Some insight on the inner workings of noblogs

Noblogs is based on WordPress, as most of you should know. I chose the words carefully: “based”, not “powered by”, as our wordpress setup has diverged with time from a standard multisite install more and more. As we love to share our knowledge (and to brag about our achievements) I will describe as much as possible of our current installation.
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