urn:uuid:28a19c61-a826-50cf-bbdf-566345b25982 Daniel Aleksandersen https://www.daniel.priv.no/ Copyright © 2020 Daniel Aleksandersen. https://www.ctrl.blog/assets/logo/logo-square.svg 2020-11-23T16:19:00Z weekly 10 urn:uuid:8c83e63e-d7a7-41b1-bac5-63f3069e16c6 2019-11-12T00:37:00Z 2020-02-27T21:42:00Z

Your ISP and internet services may not be happy with you if you rent our your PC and IP through FluidStack. An effortless $50/month sure is tempting, though.

<p>FluidStack is a service that wants to rent your PC and internet connection and pays “up to 50 USD per month”. This may be an especially tempting offer if you’re short on cash and want to make some no-effort passive income. However, you may want to reconsider FluidStack’s offer if you spend a little more time reading the fine print.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fluidstack-cloud-residential-isp.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:5f71a404-4860-4753-9dae-8fd26d5f7b69 2019-01-01T12:52:00Z 2019-01-01T12:52:00Z

Short DNS TTL times are great for failover but can be detrimental to DNS performance. Here’s a comparison of the DNS TTL caching durations of popular CDNs.

<p>Choosing the right content delivery network (CDN) can help your visitors avoid having to pay a performance cost for something that almost never happens. Longer domain name cache times can improve your overall performance and reliability.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cdn-dns-ttl.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:45377adf-528c-4fe1-a17e-231235bcb054 2018-11-19T08:00:00Z 2018-11-24T13:48:00Z

Ctrl blog was inaccessible in Turkey for five days as the country inadvertently blocked the BunnyCDN content delivery network.

<p>European content delivery network (CDN) BunnyCDN is currently blocked in Turkey by major internet service providers in the country. The Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority’s (BTK) website confirms the blocking.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/bcdn-blocked-turkey.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:bdbddc1b-8598-4ff4-8de7-2852863baa0f 2017-10-25T00:14:00Z 2018-06-07T16:09:00Z

Compare three budget content delivery networks to find which one gets you the most bang for your bucks. Minimum pricing varies greatly.

<p>Here is my quick comparison and micro-review of three budget content delivery networks (CDN) for speeding up your website’s page load times.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/budget-cdn-review.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:df3b2238-8ec6-4583-a6e6-ef26a69571d5 2017-10-19T04:58:00Z 2020-11-23T16:19:00Z

A quick review of which content delivery networks support RFC 5861’s Stale-While-Revalidate and Stale-If-Error caching directives.

<p>Last week, I talked about the benefits of and how you can test for <code>stale-while-revalidate</code> support (RFC 5861.) This week, I’ve done the testing for you.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cdn-rfc5861-support.html">Read more …</a></p>