New: Brightbox CDN (Content Delivery Network) service 26 May 09

I’m pleased to announce we’ve partnered with CDNetworks, a global leader in CDN technologies, to provide the new Brightbox CDN service – another significant addition to the Brightbox service portfolio.

The Brightbox CDN service works by seamlessly delivering static content (e.g images, css and javascript) to website visitors from a high performance “edge” cache server nearest to their geographic location.

The network of global cache servers consists of 45 Points of Presence (POPs) located in 23 cities, with multiple nodes at each POP – speeding up the serving of assets to a truly global audience.

Brightbox CDN integrates very easily with Rails’ built-in asset helpers. In most cases, customers will need to add just one line to their production environment config:

ActionController::Base.asset_host = "http://assets%d.<appname>.brightcdn.com"

Pricing is per GB, and customers can choose between two simple billing methods, either pay-as-you-go (no contract) or opt for a 12 month commit with significant volume discounts.

For more information, check out the Brightbox CDN service page on our main website. If you have further questions, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

Beta testers required to trial new Content Delivery Network (CDN) service 5 Nov 08

We’re currently working on offering a Content Delivery Network (CDN) service for Brightbox customers.  This will accelerate the serving of your static assets, distributing them around the globe and serving from the closest server to the user.  We’re trialling a partnership with Panther Express to provide this service, who provide CDN services for some pretty huge sites, such as LiveJournal, The Guardian and Shopping.com.

It can be used with the built-in Rails asset host system too, so no heavy modifications or fancy plugins.  We’re looking for some beta-testers, so if you’re interested please drop us an email to hello at the brightbox address and provide us details of your current static asset bandwidth usages if possible. All customers are welcome!