[Robbie Ferguson]

Almost a week with CloudFlare and I'm dropping them in favor of CloudFront.

I'll be blogging about my research and reasons for my decision(s).

Back to building an amazing CDN integration system!

[Garbee]

I for one can't wait for the blog post.

[Robbie Ferguson]

I actually changed things up BIG time in the CDN department. The thing is, there's a time and place where CloudFlare is ideal. And I think I found it.

I'm leveraging S3/CloudFront and CloudFlare all in one amazing slipstreamed package to increase performance, reduce costs, and all without giving CloudFlare access to the site's DNS. Freakin' brilliant!

[Garbee]

I would also love to see a blog post on how you handle the cat5.tv forwards. Is it all through Dreamhost or do you use a 3rd party service for forwarding things on that domain?

[Robbie Ferguson]

It's a free program called Yourls - http://yourls.org/

It's fantastic. GWG AKA Guru put me on to it a couple years ago and I love it. Makes it SO easy to shorten URLs, but keep control over them.

For example, I might make a short url for a product called "blah"... so cat5.tv/blah. But then the site we linked to goes down or out of business, so I can go in and edit /blah and tell it to point to a different page, or something like that.

Really, really great.

It also allows you to host your own "public" URL shortener. I opted against that since my use is strictly for the show. Wasn't looking to provide a service to the web, only to the viewers of the show.

This should be its own thread