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Tutorial Released for Joomla CDN Implementation with MaxCDN

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. MaxCDN supports Joomla, through their Joomla CDN which is powered by the Joomla CDN Plugin. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Since Joomla is such a widely used CMS, the need to implement it with a CDN is obvious. Here at maxCDN we want to make this integration as simple as possible for our customers so we teamed up with Peter Van Westen to create an easy to use plugin called TopCDN. Mr Westen is notorious among the Joomla community and currently has the top two ranked extensions on the Joomla website. You can visit his website here.

It is very easy to implement the TopCDN Plugin for Joomla with MaxCDN. It is just a 3 step process and should take you less than five minutes!

  1. Create a Pull Zone for Your Website
  2. Install the TopCDN Extension on Your Site
  3. Copy the URL for Your Pull Zone into the TopCDN Settings

A thorough tutorial of how to implement Joomla with MaxCDN can be found on our Wiki. Check out the article and give us some feed back.

Using a CDN can have several benefits for your Joomla website, including the following:

  1. Much faster page load times
  2. Greatly reduced load on your server
  3. Higher SEO Rankings
  4. An overall smoother and more pleasant experience for your users

We will be adding more tutorials soon, so stay tuned!

Tutorial Released for Rackspace Cloud Implementation with MaxCDN

Cloud Hosting is a very efficient way to host some large files on a dedicated webspace while keeping the expenses at minimum, and there are many Cloud Hosting providers out there. On of the famous and most used Clouds is RackSpace Cloud. As cloud is not like CDN, means the server and what is hosted on it is at one place, those who download off of a cloud space will not benefit from the advantage of Geo-based download CDN offers – this is why the need to use CDN with Cloud hosting arose.

It is very easy to implement RackSpace Cloud with MaxCDN, it is actually a 3 step process.

  1. Upload your files to the cloud.
  2. Create a Pull Zone with the Origin URL of your Cloud Bucket
  3. Start browsing your Cloud-Hosted files via the CDN URL.

A thorough tutorial of how to implement RackSpace Cloud with MaxCDN can be found on our Wiki. Check out the article ( http://wiki.netdna.com/Implementation/Rackspace_Cloud ) and give us some feed back.

We will be adding more tutorials soon, so stay tuned!

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