Author Archives: Chadrick Peters

07 Jul 2026

Cloudflare CDN vs Amazon CloudFront: Edge Platform or AWS-Native CDN?

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If you are deciding between Cloudflare CDN and Amazon CloudFront, the first question is not which vendor has more features on paper. The real question is what kind of delivery model you want to buy into. Cloudflare is best understood as a broad independent edge platform. Its CDN sits inside a wider stack that can include DNS, DDoS protection, WAF, traffic controls, Workers, and media products. Amazon CloudFront is different. It is strongest when it is part of a wider [...]

06 Jul 2026

KeyCDN Alternatives: 8 Providers Compared

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KeyCDN is still a legitimate CDN choice. It has a clean self-serve model, public pricing that is easy to read, no separate request charges, and an onboarding path that makes sense for straightforward pull-based website delivery. For many smaller websites and static delivery workloads, that simplicity is exactly why teams stay. The real question is what happens when the workload stops being simple. Website delivery usually rewards a pull-based model because the files are small, the cache behavior is easy [...]

30 Jun 2026

BytePlus CDN Alternatives: 8 Providers Compared

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BytePlus CDN sits in an interesting part of the market. It is a serious delivery platform with a strong media and app-distribution posture, a visible APAC emphasis, and a product story that reaches into security adjacencies and edge programmability. For some buyers, that broader shape is exactly the appeal. The practical question is whether that shape matches what you are actually buying. BytePlus is not just a bandwidth line item. It layers request billing, edge-to-origin billing, paid log delivery, and [...]

23 Jun 2026

Google Cloud CDN Alternatives: 8 Better-Fit Options for Web, Media, and Software Delivery

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Google Cloud CDN is not a weak product. For GCP-native web applications and APIs, it can be a very sensible choice. But many buyers searching for Google Cloud CDN alternatives are not trying to replace a bad service. They are trying to answer a more practical question: is Google Cloud CDN really the best fit for the workload, the budget model, and the way the team wants to operate? That question matters because Google Cloud CDN is best understood as [...]

20 Jun 2026

Microsoft Azure Front Door Alternatives: 8 Providers Compared for Websites, Media, and Software Delivery

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Microsoft Azure Front Door is not a weak product. For the right buyer, it is one of the more capable ways to combine global delivery, routing, failover, and security in one edge service. But that does not make it the default fit for every workload. Many teams looking for Microsoft Azure Front Door alternatives are not replacing a bad service. They are usually asking a more practical question: do we really need a broader application-edge platform, or would a delivery-first [...]

11 Jun 2026

FFmpeg CDN Integration: 4 Practical Live Streaming Workflows with CDNsun

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FFmpeg has been around for a long time because it keeps solving real media delivery problems without much ceremony. It can ingest, transcode, repackage, inspect, and even play streams from the command line, which is exactly why it still shows up in modern live workflows. On many Linux systems, the package set also includes ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffprobe, giving you an encoder, a quick player, and a stream inspection tool in one practical toolkit. For CDNsun CDN HTTP Live, the [...]

02 Mar 2026

Create your first AI agent with OpenClaw hosted on Virtual Machine (VM)

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In this guide, we will install free and open-source OpenClaw AI on a self-hosted DigitalOcean Ubuntu 24.04 droplet (VM), connect it to the OpenAI API, and run your first agent using the built-in TUI and the local Web UI via SSH tunneling. The setup is a bit hands-on, but it pays off with flexibility. What is OpenClaw and why host it on your own VM? OpenClaw is a framework for running AI agents with a modular architecture (agents, channels, skills, [...]

01 Mar 2026

CDN Request Path DNS TLS Cache HIT vs MISS and TTL Strategy

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CDNsun and other CDNs sit between your users and your origin to reduce latency, increase throughput, and protect infrastructure from traffic spikes. But the real gains (or disappointments) come down to how a single request is routed, negotiated over TLS, evaluated for caching, and fetched from origin on a miss. This article walks through that end-to-end request path and the decisions that most affect performance and cache hit ratio. From URL to edge: DNS routing, connection reuse, and the TLS [...]

26 Feb 2026

OVHcloud and Hetzner 2026 Hosting Price Increases Explained

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OVHcloud and Hetzner announced broad price increases that hit VPS, cloud instances, dedicated servers, and even add-ons like IPv4 addresses. This article explains what’s really driving the increases, why the two providers are reacting differently, what to expect next, and how hosting providers can reduce risk and costs. AI changed the supply chain economics, and RAM is the new bottleneck Both OVHcloud and Hetzner point to the same root cause: the cost and availability of core server components (especially RAM and [...]

11 Feb 2026

Secure HLS on CDNsun with URL Signing and Access Control

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Secure HLS on CDNsun HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) is easy to deliver at scale, but it is also easy to steal: a single leaked .m3u8 can be shared, embedded elsewhere, or used for unauthorized restreaming. Because HLS is built from playlists and many small segments, protecting only one URL is rarely enough. This article explains how to secure HLS on CDNsun using URL signing and complementary controls like hotlinking, geo-blocking, IP rules, and password protection. URL signing for HLS on CDNsun: [...]