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Velocix content delivery network

For a while now, I've been using Velocix to accelerate my blog. Velocix is a sort of Content Delivery Network, much like Akamai and Limelight technologies. The difference between Velocix and the others is that the basic package is FREE. FREE as in "I just found a dollar in the street" FREE. Why use a CDN for a blog? Well, you never know, tomorrow I could have a stroke of genius and end up on Slashdot or Digg, and then my server would get hammered. Better to let Velocix take the load than my VPS, right? And besides, its always nice to see a startup that has a fresh look at older ideas. I haven't done a whole lot of research on the subject, but as far as I know there aren't a whole lot of CDN's that use BitTorrent as a peer distribution protocol. That's Neat. Neat with a capital "N" Neat. The management portal is nice and speedy, and they have log file downloads in W3C format available in case you're a hit monger. The one thing that would be a cool feature would be an FTP site where you could pick up your log files, and maybe for the paying customer scheduled automated log deliveries to FTP and SFTP sites. I'm not sure if any other CDN offers SFTP log delivery, but if there are any companies out there going for PCI compliance, its a must (seeing as how FTP is a horribly insecure protocol). Well, I'll go for now, but I'll leave some screen caps of the Velocix portal to wet your whistle. Go over and sign up for the basic account. It can't hurt to try! (no, Velocix didn't give me incentive to post this, either. It's unbiased.)