If you serve a lot of static files from your website you can acheive a healthy speed boost for your visitors as well as offloading the burden of serving up those files by using Amazon Cloudfront to roll your own Content Delivery Network (CDN).

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Setting up your own CDN is a three step process and it’s very easy to do. If you have not done so already you need to sign up for an Amazon AWS account and register for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Cloudfront. (more…)