MaxCDN Blog

July 29, 2016 | Josh Mervine

Visualizing MaxCDN Data Using Datadog

This tutorial requires a MaxCDN and Datadog account. If you don’t already have these accounts, go ahead and grab a free MaxCDN test account and Datadog free trial. Recently there have been a number of requests for assistance with integrations between MaxCDN’s APIs and various data aggregation services. In this post we’re going to focus... Read More

July 24, 2016 | Chris Ueland

MaxCDN Joins StackPath

To our customers and friends: We started MaxCDN with the vision of creating an automated content delivery platform that customers would love. We’ve come a long way in the past several years, growing to 16,000 customers and powering millions of websites with our open source initiatives. We did this all with very little funding. It’s... Read More

June 28, 2016 | Justin Dorfman

Now Shipping HTTP Referer Blacklisting for Hotlink Defense

HTTP referer blacklisting is a new MaxCDN feature that helps content owners prevent hotlinking and save on CDN bandwidth costs. This highly anticipated feature is an alternative to HTTP referer whitelisting. Before showing you how to blacklist referers, I’ll first go over hotlinking and the differences between HTTP referer blacklisting and whitelisting. If you already... Read More

June 20, 2016 | Justin Dorfman

Now Shipping Gzip Compression Levels

Gzip compression levels is an advanced feature for MaxCDN users that have download managers or use multiple CDNs and need to keep file sizes consistent during transit. In the past, some of our customers required different gzip compression levels for several reasons. These customers were often using download managers or multiple CDNs. For the latter... Read More

June 17, 2016 | Robert Gibb

The Hardware Side of Caching (Carton #3)

The past two cartons have contained a lot of information related to what caching is and how it works. But they’ve been lacking some vital nutrients – information about the hardware side of caching, whether that be hardware inside an enterprise database or personal computer. Inside this carton you’ll get some great information about this... Read More

June 12, 2016 | Justin Dorfman

Now Shipping Account Activity Stream API

We have many ways to secure your MaxCDN account, including our activity stream feature that lets you keep tabs on everything meaningful happening within it. Before today you had to log in to your control panel to access this information, but now you can access it through a command line interface using our API. So... Read More

June 10, 2016 | Robert Gibb

Caching Plugins and a Product-Cache Fit (Carton #2)

Caching plugins are great at letting you manage everything from browser caching to CDN caching in a single environment. But with dozens of plugin options, which one do you choose? Or do you even use one at all? This week we cover articles that will help you find the answers to these questions. We also... Read More

June 8, 2016 | Alex Ivanovs

Why Digital Publishers Use Content Delivery Networks

This post provides an overview of the challenges faced by companies that publish content online. It then shows how content delivery networks (CDNs) direct these challenges so digital publishers can responsibly deliver news stories, blog posts, images, and other content to their readers. You would think that with the evolution of web technology, website performance... Read More

June 3, 2016 | Robert Gibb

API Caching with Tinder and Runnable (Carton #1)

CREAM was introduced by Wu-Tang in 1993. After that, web performance junkies caught hold of it, replacing cash money with cache hit. What followed was a storm of T-shirts (including one by us), even a parody by our friends at WP Engine. But Cache Rules Everything Around Me isn’t just a good T-shirt idea –... Read More

June 2, 2016 | Brianna Schlanger

Video Demo of Our Reseller Platform

The wait is finally over! If you’re a customer of ours or have been considering becoming a MaxCDN Reseller, we now have the information you need to get started. In the video below I give you a quick run through of the reseller platform interface, and show you how easy it is to manage clients.... Read More