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July 10, 2011 05:59 pm GMT

New Poll: Large file on CDN or small file local?

The new poll is up (in the sidebar on the actual site, RSS folks) and it reads:

Would you rather host a 200k file on a major CDN or a 20k file self-hosted?

This requires a little explanation. Let's say the file in question is jQuery UI. On your site, you only need it for it's tabs functionality. You could load a copy of it from Google's CDN like this:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.14/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

That file is literally 205k, because it's the…


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New Poll: Large file on CDN or small file local? is a post from CSS-Tricks


Original Link: http://css-tricks.com/13261-large-file-on-cdn-or-small-local/

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