MaxCDN Integration Accelerator

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This hook enables your site to work with the MaxCDN content delivery network. Certain files on your site may need to change quickly from time to time, especially your photos and avatar images. Right now if you JUST do the MaxCDN integration, your users may be confused as to why their avatar/profile photos don't update when THEY update them. It may take up to 24 hours for their pictures to be purged from the MaxCDN cache. My hook cuts that time down to about a minute at most by contacting the MaxCDN servers directly and telling them to purge your visitors avatar or profile photo from their servers and re-download the new version.

 

This allows you to take FULL advantage of the MaxCDN content delivery network and still provide an excellent user experience.

 

What is a CDN?

 

CDN is a Content Delivery Network of highly-optimized servers all around the world working together to distribute your content (CSS and Javascript files, downloadable objects, applications, real-time media streams, and much more) through hundreds of servers instead of a single host. This "smart route" technology makes sure each visitor to your site gets their data from the city closest to them.

 

Why do you need a CDN?

 

By bringing your content closer to the user's connection point, the CDN provider MaxCDN unleashes the potential of your site with much faster load times, superior scalability, and guaranteed uptime. A faster loading site not only makes your visitors happy, it can also earn you a few extra points toward a higher ranking on the major search engines – and what business owner or webmaster wouldn't want that!

 

 

Setting Up MaxCDN with IPS

 

 

Follow this link to review basic setup instructions for MaxCDN and IP.Board: http://community.inv...mal-effort-r510

 

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