: Looking for a CDN Most of the CDN's that I've seen require you to upload your content in advance. I'm looking for a CDN that, upon receiving a request for a resource it hasn't seen, will

@Jessie594

You can find more about Origin Pull providers also in discussion at StackOverflow. AFAIK most of pay-as-go CDN providers, as CDN77.com or Maxcdn, has this feature as the simpliest and standard one. It is quite easy for configuration as there is no need for any downloads, just preset directly on CDN.

Something about it also on it here.

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@Sent6035632

Yes, Cloudfront will do this quite easily. I used it to offload 2/3 of our server image traffic.


Set up Cloudfront with a Custom Origin pointing to your web server.
Set up a cname in your dns entries that points to the assigned Cloudfront server.
Then send all your image requests to your cname server with the path to image on your web server.


Requests to images on your web pages like example.com/images/thisimage.jpg becomes a request to media.example.com/images/thisimage.jpg and Cloudfront does all the rest by pulling the image and serving subsequent requests.

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@Courtney195

Akamai will do this for you.....

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@Annie201

AS mentioned, you want "origin fetch" services from a CDN. SimpleCDN, MaxCDN, Voxel, CacheFly and others offer this at the low end with contract-less pay-as-you-go options. See here for a list of many of these smaller CDNs.

As for the big boys, Level3, Akamai, and Limeleght offer this with contract-based terms.

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@Samaraweera270

You're looking for the Coral CDN, basically. It's dead easy to use, and free!

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@Shanna517

The technology you're looking for is called Origin Pull. I'm not sure about Cloudfront specifically, but most CDNs are able to offer this.

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