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How Google is wasting your bandwidth

Nicholas Piël | November 30, 2009

Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a method  to improve the performance of your website. Some of the reasons for using a CDN are:

Placing content geographically close to the end user and thus lowering latency and increasing bandwidth.
Increasing the amount of parallel downloads at the client by distributing over different domains
Offload the burden on [...]

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Hello world!

Nicholas Piël | November 16, 2009

Yes, “Hello world!” , the first default post on a Wordpress blog. After much consideration i decided to simply use the best piece of software there is for blogging purposes. Yeah, i know it is PHP code and not Python and trust me, i tried really hard to use some Python alternative and even started [...]

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