Does your CDN support include functionality for hosting avatars, profilepics, sigpics, attachments, albums and other user uploaded files?

I have been running MaxCDN for quite a while and still hoping that they will release a solution for css, avatars, profilepics, sigpics, attachments, albums and other user uploaded files. Currently they do not offer this. CSS on CDN seems possible for vb 4.1, but not 3.8.6

Does vbSEO offer such functionality?
If not currently, then are there any plans to offer this in the near future?

Many thanks for your time.

Maxcdn can run all of those things with the exception of attachments with simple replacement variables or by using the provisions offered in vbseo's control panel, provided they are in the file system, not the database. The vbseo method also supports attachments provided they are open for guests. We are partnered with maxcdn for the 3.6 gold release (coming soon).

Very interesting. Thanks for your swift response.

I forgot to mention that I do want to keep the files on my server and use a MAXCDN pull zone to serve the files to my users. Does that make a difference?

As I understand it so far vbulletin only has 1 location to write files to, which is automatically the same location to read the files from. But with a pull zone, we need a location on my server to write the files to and another location (on the MAXCDN pull zone) to read the files from. Changing the vbulletin location for the file will change both the write and the read location. This is how I understand it. Am I mistaken? Could you please explain?

Yes, that is using a pull zone.

You don't need to change ANYTHING on your folder structure at all, not do you change any file locations or write persmissions/etc.

Your pull zone is your default .com.
You can make a new pull zone if you want to get fancy and use special httpd.conf rules for caching/etc, ie, origin.site.com and that also points to home/site/public_html/ the same way site.com does.

Using cnames, you can 'fake' any location you want.

css.site.com
is effectively the same as
site.com/www.site.com
when set up correctly.

so,

css.site.com/css/style.css is the same thing as
site.com/css/style.css

and so on. It's a mirror.

The css subdomain/cname is blocked via the maxcdn robots file to stop dupe content issues.
And an exception needs to be made for these cnames when using non-www to ww redirects, see
[How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects - vBulletin SEO Forums for more info.

Thanks for that information. Its very useful. Could you explain how you support attachments provided that they are open for guests? I understand that if an attachment is not open to guests, then it will not be possible for a CDN to pull the file. Do you mean that vbSEO enables all attachments that are visible to guests, to be server from the CDN?
If so, then do you plan to code a solution for attachments that are not visible to guests?

It is currently an all-or-nothing system. Attachments must be public to use them on the CDN. This also applies to private forums as well.

Perhaps in the future more permissions can be worked in to the actual re-writing of the attachment itself to see if it should be referenced via the CND url or locally, but this is not currently in production.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

It is currently an all-or-nothing system. Attachments must be public to use them on the CDN. This also applies to private forums as well.

Perhaps in the future more permissions can be worked in to the actual re-writing of the attachment itself to see if it should be referenced via the CND url or locally, but this is not currently in production.

It would be nice to see that function in the future.

Thanks for your answers.

This is our first iteration of working with a CDN. as time goes on, it will improve.

I think its great that you include website speed as part of SEO improvements. It gives a whole new dimension to your product. I hope that you will continue developments in this direction.

alfa1,

If you want to see i have All my albums, attachments, scripts js,css, avatars, images at Maxcdn using vbseo 3.6.0rc2 take a look Under-Linux.Org O Portal do Administrador de Sistemas

How hard is it to configure that?

How did you manage the attachments that reside in restricted forums?

alfa1,

It's builtin on 3.6.0 so it's easy.

I don't have private forums..

Originally Posted by magmf

alfa1,

It's builtin on 3.6.0 so it's easy.

I don't have private forums..

Ah I see.

Your attachments do not display as being on your CDN btw. See:
http://under-linux.org/attachments/f...-rbs-dude2-jpg