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Control Panel 1.2 Update

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Featured Updates: Today, the Control Panel v1.2 is released. Among the new features:
  • Faster API/Web Interface: Cache Clearing and Zone Provisioning
  • Visual Cache Clearing: right from the Dashboard
  • Enhanced Security: Against Brute Force Control Panel Login Attacks
  • More: Bug fixes and Improvements (listed below)
Faster API/Web Interface: Previously, when provisioning new Content Zones or Clearing Cache (from the API or the Control Panel Interface), we had been using a single threaded process to connect to each PoP to control it.  This has been re-engineered to be multi-threaded.  Therefore, the time to perform each action would be the time for:
  • Edge Location 1 - wait for successful  response + Edge Location 2 -wait for successful response+ .... Edge Location 9 - report success back to browser/API.
With version 1.2, we are now doing a multi-threaded process. This will speed up control panel and API speeds buy upto 9x. It works like the following:
  • Connect to All Edges at once - wait for responses- report success back to browser/API.
The response is sent back as fast as the PoP that takes the longest.  This will make the API and Control Panel usage more real time. Clearing Cache right from the Dashboard: One of the biggest inconveniences in using a CDN for a Pull Zone is managing Cache.  Because of how large cache can become, how I/O intensive it is managing cache on production servers and because of having numerous copies of the cache - we've found it hasn't been obvious in how to make this process easy - until now.  We are starting to release tools (and expect more) to more easily manage cache.  You will now find a visual Purge Cache tool which allows you to easily purge a Zones most frequently accessed files in the "Files" tab of the Dashboard and the "Manage Pull Zone" page:

We continue to listen and  strive to make your CDN experience more fluid and think this feature is a step in the right direction.  Expect more features like this and never hesitate to send us feedback on Cache Purging ideas.

 

Enhanced Security Security and reliability are a huge part of our product offering.  Besides hardening our Edge delivery platform, we are focused on enhancing your security with the Control Panel.  In a previous release, we've created password strength meters on all important accounts.  In this version, we are doing more security checks for passwords and protection against brute force attacks.   If someone logs into your account 5 times with the wrong password, the account will be locked and you will be notified.

Your account will unlock automatically after 1 hour.  If, in the meantime, you need to access your Control Panel - you can always contact our team for an immediate unlock after you verify ownership of the account.

 

Other Bug Fixes:
  • Updating Zones does not require all fields, just the ones that are being edited
  • Fixed footer breaking when viewing email
  • Removed the form from push zone creation page
Other Improvements:
  • Made it possible to highlight text on zone pages
  • Additional backend logging
  • Audit trail for all actions performed in Control Panel
  • Don't capitalize the 1st letter of zone names for browser compatibility
  • Show hits on Dashboard
  • Added "Label" for content Zones
  • Show hits for the month on Dashboard
  • Created a "Re-Lookup Origin IP" button for Pull Zones
  • Provisioning is now multi-threaded for quicker setup of zones
  • Improved the error notification when creating Pull Zones
Other New Features:
  • Brute force protection
  • Implemented banned password list for extra security
A Big "Thank You" to all customers that have been giving us great feedback and to the team responsible for the release: Bryan, Billy, Don, Stephen & David and a special thank to Jan.

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Control Panel 1.1.4 Update

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed sorting by hits in Dashboard U/I
  • Fixed the Zend Error  on Unique IP per day report
  • Fixed the display of Service Updates
Improvements:
  • Fixed Side Bar Navigation
  • Moved API ID to its own column
  • Changed A record string to CNAME record string
  • If a password change fails it now displays reason
  • Added Password strength meter to all locations requiring a password
  • Made the images for different zone types on dashboard all the same size
  • Added version string to the footer
  • Changed the file listing for popular files to the new U/I style
  • Removed all instances of Origin IP from the Control Panel. Instead a warning will be displayed if the origin IP differs from what we have on file asking you to change it.

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MaxCDN launches one of a kind content delivery network affiliate program

Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Leading content delivery network (CDN) to launch online affiliate program with unheard of industry commission payouts

Los Angeles, CA – January 10, 2010— MaxCDN, LLC, a leading Los Angeles-based website accelerator and content delivery network (CDN) provider announced today the launch of the new MaxCDN.com affiliate program. This new program would give new and existing MaxCDN.com customers and affiliates the ability to create search engine friendly affiliate URLs’, have access to static, flash and text creative’s, and receive a commission of 10% on each sale of the person they refer to MaxCDN.com for an entire year.

“Having run extremely successful and ground breaking affiliate programs with most of our former companies, I’m happy to be able to continued this tradition and support our motivated customers and affiliates who work hard by staying abreast of market trends and are really the true pioneers of today’s e-commerce driven Internet,” said Ben Neumann, MaxCDN.coms’ Chief Executive Officer. “Our new program is open to anyone and offers payout terms unheard-of in comparable online affiliate programs.”

MaxCDN.com’s new affiliate program will give its publishers full control over their account; along with supplying each affiliate with detailed analytics to help tune their conversion ratio. More importantly, MaxCDN.com has made a commitment to its affiliates with any help and support they might need as well as advice on how to increase their conversion rates from its affiliate management team who have years of practical, hands-on Internet marketing experience. Unlike other online affiliate programs who payout a flat fee or a percentage of a sale on the first order only, MaxCDN.com’s affiliates will get a 10% payout on any recurring sales made within one year of referring a new MaxCDN.com customer. This can easily turn in more then $1000 per referred customer!

MaxCDN.coms’ management team hopes that everyone will take advantage of the program and signup up for their CDN Affiliate Program. On the page, visitors will be able to see full program details along with any terms and a clear payout schedule. Those interested in participating need only have the desire and motivation to use the programs extensive tools and resources to generate a substantial revenue stream for themselves. MaxCDN.coms’ payout schedule is very simple with payments made via PayPal, check or wire-transfer on the 15th of every month.

About MaxCDN, LLC
MaxCDN.com offers the one of the lowest cost content delivery services in the world. It was founded with two main goals in mind; bring high-end CDN services to all internet users, and make website acceleration affordable enough for the average website owner without jeopardizing quality. MaxCDN.com is built upon a solid framework and its’employees are well trained and educated in today’ latest technology standards and patterns. The company is privately held, and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Contact:
Stephen Gonzalez / MaxCDN.com
877.629.2361
prdept@maxcdn.com

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MaxCDN.com chosen to accelerate social media news Website Mashable.com

Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Mashable.com, the Internet’s largest social media news and information Website selects MaxCDN.com to provide content delivery network (CDN) services.

Los Angeles, CA – January 10, 2010—MaxCDN.com, a leading Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) provider announces today that they are formally accelerating Mashable.com, the Internet largest social media news blog’ content around the world using its World-Class Anycast IP network. MaxCDN.com provides full WordPress CDN integration and static file acceleration and compression.

“We are extremely happy and proud to announce the partnership between MaxCDN and Mashable,” said Ben Neumann, MaxCDN’s Chief Executive Officer. “Being chosen to accelerate Mashable.com is a testament to the exceptional quality and reliability of our private CDN network.”

Mashable came to MaxCDN in 2009 wanting to take their content delivery network integration to the next level with custom features and requirements that were not offered at their previous CDN. MaxCDN’s team quickly went to work to develop the tools and system infrastructure necessary to meet Mashable’s demanding requirements. After an initial plan was created, Mashable was successful implemented, and fully integrated on the MaxCDN platform, in less then a week.

“Mashable’s readership has more than tripled this year and we needed a way to maintain a good user experience, MaxCDN makes that possible,” said Frederick Townes, CTO of Mashable. “I don’t know what we would have done without them and their support team.”

Since implementation, Mashable.com has already seen lower latency times, decreased page load times and nearly a 30% reduction in bandwidth usage through the static file compression, MaxCDN.com provides.

About Mashable Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 15 million monthly page views, Mashable.com is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web. Please visit mashable.com for more information.

About MaxCDN.com MaxCDN (http://www.MaxCDN.com) offers the one of the lowest cost content delivery services in the world. It was founded with two main goals in mind; bring high-end CDN services to all Internet users, and make website acceleration affordable enough for the average website owner without jeopardizing quality. MaxCDN.com is built upon a solid framework and its’ employees are well trained and educated in today’ latest technology standards and patterns. The company is privately held, and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Contact:
Stephen Gonzalez / MaxCDN.com
877.629.2361
prdept@maxcdn.com

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Control Panel 1.1.3 Update

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue that caused origin IP to show as 0.0.0.0 on Zone info
  • Fixed issue where Javascript errored on dashboard when zones table is empty
  • Fixed issue that caused a fatal error to be displayed when adding a user with an email that was already in the database
Improvements:
  • Additional logging added for fatal errors
  • Made sure that the lost password function did not appear to work for accounts that were not there
  • Added additional content when user activates your account

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