MaxCDN Blog

August 14, 2015 | Jovan Katic

5 Common Causes of 40x Errors for CDN Users

At MaxCDN we offer a complimentary 1-on-1 integration call to all new customers. This service, provided by me and my fellow support engineers on our Speed Team, ensures MaxCDN fits seamlessly into your existing system. After this call, you and your users are left with an error-free CDN experience … until something changes. Whether you’re... Read More

August 7, 2015 | Robert Gibb

Getting $#!+ Done and Having Fun at MaxCDN

At MaxCDN we have three offices in three very cool cities: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Belgrade, Serbia. We also have a set of core values that fosters our spirit of adventure in and out of work. On July 23, our marketing team put our Get It Done, Make Cool $#!+, and Work n’ Whistle... Read More

July 30, 2015 | Josh DeWald

Make SSL Connections Faster with OCSP Stapling

If you prize security and believe milliseconds count, you’re gonna love this: MaxCDN now supports OCSP stapling, a method your users’ browsers can use to quickly and safely determine if your SSL certificate is valid. This is yet another release (remember HSTS?) that helps our customers make secure connections fast. There have been rumors about... Read More

July 28, 2015 | Esteban Borges

A Primer for Emerging Developers on DevOps, CDNs and More

Web development is a rapidly changing field. Not that long ago, developers were free to focus on what they knew best – HTML, CSS, Javascript- and leave system administration and networking to the operations team. Developers, testers, and sysadmins were confined to their own areas of the web stack. And for a while, it worked... Read More

July 27, 2015 | Aleksandar Matic

Is Your CDN Slowing You Down?

When choosing a CDN to deliver your web content, various factors need to be taken into consideration: the reliability of the network, the audience the CDN serves, and the ease of integrating the CDN into your web service. But to many, one of the most important factors is speed, or how fast the CDN delivers... Read More

July 25, 2015 | 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

July 19, 2015 | Robert Gibb

How to Lower CDN Bills While Improving Performance

Multi-CDN has been a hot topic of discussion in 2015. It’s also often the path to reducing content delivery costs and gaining more confidence in your CDN strategy. But lower CDN bills and better performance? It seems too good to be true. However, since load balancing services have become available, it’s actually very possible, and... Read More

July 8, 2015 | Robert Gibb

3 Things CDN Users Need to Know About HTTP/2

We’ve been covering HTTP/2 since its introduction as SPDY. And now that the HTTP/2 specification has been published, service providers, software vendors, and network administrators are gradually rolling out support for it. MaxCDN will start supporting HTTP/2 in 2016. But, until that time comes, you can still maintain an HTTP/2 connection over your server and... Read More

July 1, 2015 | Andre Newman

How to Deliver High Performance Images

The web is dominated by images. As of June 2015, images account for 63% of the average web page’s size. Despite this, many websites tend to poorly optimize their images. Image optimization not only reduces the size and complexity of a web page, but it can vastly improve the way users experience a website. Guy... Read More

June 23, 2015 | David Henzel

Say Hello to Our New Transparency Page

Imagine this: Your business is on trial and you as the company’s representative and dedicated employee are being questioned. Your business is innocent of what it’s on trial for, but that doesn’t matter right now. The time has come for total transparency. You’re on the stand and you can’t lie. The questions come: Question one... Read More