This is the RIGG ACCESS private Content Delivery Network (=CDN) running on Google App Engine.
How it benefits us?
We can now store our site images and javascript in Googles international server base. It means our users can get instant page loads from any point in the planet and we suffer no bandwidth overhead as a result.
At present, all of our data comes from the server in London, whilst this is blisteringly fast, we still have to contend with a quickly growing user base in the Far East and in Australia, these countries in particular do not have fast transfer rates and our sites will be significantly slower than sites hosted in their own country.
How else will it benefit us?
This is probably the most important, the JQuery javascript library that we are intending to use in all future projects relies on a tightly written code framework that gets deployed with each page load. As this will also be stored within the Google CDN we have no need to worry about rolling out future updates via our own server. This not only saves us heaps of bandwidth, it also saves us from manually having to do this ourselves to there are time savings involved too.
Again, the end users benefit too as they get a direct page load with info from a sever that will be geographically very close to them.
Errm... How does it work again?
To put it simply, this file below is store on the CDN instead of on our own server:
http://rope-access.appspot.com/images/LogoRAClearBG.png
all we do is to include it in the main rigg-access.com site, whenever that particular image loads on the page, it now loads direct from the CDN, saving bandwidth, making things faster etc etc..Simplez..!
