ablecommerce-cdn-plugin
AbleCommerce Gold CDN Plugin (Free Installation Package is available at: http://www.drundo.com/ablecommerce#cdn )
CDN stands for Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network. Basically, it’s a bunch of highly optimized servers all across the world, with a bit of unique logic worked into them: you’ll always hit the server that’s closest to you. This leads to huge performance improvements for AbleCommerce sites that have product category pages with a lot of images.
The CDN works with so called Pull URL’s. This means you specify a directory on your server that it pulls all files from, which it then starts serving from the CDN. This allows ecommerce site owners and webmasters to keep managing products and images trough the same AbleCommerce admin interface or FTP while taking advantage of hundreds of CDN servers located all over the world.
A CDN Solution for AbleCommerce We have developed a custom AbleCommerce plugin which will move all site images, java script and css files into CDN automatically. You can have your AbleCommerce 7 site switched to CDN in less than 5 minutes. The CDN plugin comes with One-Click install script which will automatically download and configure all required plugin files. Switching your site CDN service On/Off is as simple as checking a check box.
Who should be using an AbleCommerce CDN solution? Because it distributes your data across the globe, a CDN is beneficial for pretty much everyone. Larger AbleCommerce storefronts and sites with a lot of traffic, sites serving videos or other downloadable files benefit most, as it speeds up these downloads. Other sites that benefit are sites that are often on Digg or other huge sites – as it spreads the load across a network of servers, rather than just one web server.
CDN Service Summary The CDN plugin allows merchants to easily integrate Content Delivery Service into their online storefronts and take advantage of increased site speed and reliability. With this plugin you can automatically integrate our super fast CDN into your online storefront without the trouble of editing AbleCommerce code or changing site configuration.
Benefits: Speeds up your online storefront. Offloads the web server from extra requests thus further increasing the speed of your site. If your site starts receiving high traffic the CDN will balance the traffic by distributing the traffic across different CDN edge locations. Parallelizes images, css and javascript downloads across multiple hostnames. Features: One click install and uninstall On the fly rewriting of all product image URLs. No need to change the code. Apply Async/Defer loading to site javascripts and css code. Compatible with all major CDN service providers. Automatically detects HTTPS requests and delivers HTTPS requests via CDN. CDN setup and plugin setup and configuration is included FREE of charge with all CDN packages listed above.