maxflinn said:
John Duncan said:
The directory that contains the avatars is not being flushed at the CDN. compare and contrast:
http://cdn.whathifi.com/sites/whathifi.com/files/imagecache/advf-author-pane/pictures/picture-1031567.jpg
(the cached picture on the content delivery network server)
http://www.whathifi.com/sites/whathifi.com/files/imagecache/advf-author-pane/pictures/picture-1031567.jpg
(the picture on the website server)
Get Internet Ops to flush the CDN and add that directory to the flushing routine...
sorry jd but that's beyond my pc knowledge..
could you explain in laymans terms please?
To ensure a better end-user experience, a content delivery network ("CDN") keeps copies ("caches") of certain parts of an underlying website on multiple web servers ("nodes"), which are widely distributed. This reduces the average time it takes for a webpage to be downloaded, and increases the resilience of the site, as their are now (effectively) multiple identical copies of it available. The stuff cached is usually media content that is regarded as basically "static" - i.e. it won't change over time. The CDN's content is refreshed periodically, so a given node may nor have the latest version of the media file. Individual companies, ISPs, etc. may have their own CDN to help manage the amount of data downloaded from the internet, by keeping local copies. It is these caches that are out of date and that need to be replaced ("flushed").