Author Archives: Chadrick Peters

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: [...]

05 Feb 2026

DNS Glue Records Explained – How to Check Glue with dig

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Glue records are one of those DNS details you only notice when they break. They sit at the boundary between the parent zone (like .com) and your domain, and they can determine whether resolvers can even reach your authoritative nameservers. In this article we explain what glue records are, when they are required, how they improve reliability, and how to check your own domain for glue with simple, practical commands. What glue records are (and the DNS “chicken and egg” [...]

29 Jan 2026

curl CDN diagnostics: HTTP headers, caching, TLS timing

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Comprehensive Diagnostic Methodologies for Global Content Delivery Networks via the curl Command-Line Utility Modern CDNs hide enormous complexity behind clean, fast responses. Anycast routing, TLS termination, cache layers and security policies can all fail in subtle ways. In this article we focus on using curl as a transparent, protocol-level diagnostic tool that lets engineers at CDNsun customers and beyond observe, test and optimize end-to-end CDN delivery with surgical precision. Transparent HTTP/S Diagnostics for CDN Routing and Caching At the heart of CDN [...]