Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL
All of our assets loaded via the CDN [to our client in Australia] in just under 5 seconds. It only took ~2.7s to get those same assets to our friends down under with SPDY. The performance with no CDN blew the CDN performance out of the water. It is just no comparison. In our case, it really seems that the advantages of SPDY greatly outweigh that of a CDN when it comes to speed.
(tags: cdn spdy nginx performance web ssl tls optimization multiplexing tcp ops)