A typical WordPress blog contains a mix of static stuff such as images, javascript, style sheets and dynamic content such as posts, pages and comments posted by users. You can speed up your blog by serving static content via content delivery network such as Akamai, Edgecast and so on. The big boys of CDN business also offered the solution to accelerate dynamic content to improve the performance and reliability of the blog. However, solutions offered by big and traditional CDNs are expensive. Amazon cloudfront recently started to serving dynamic content at lowered price. Amazon cloudfront recently started to serving dynamic content at lowered price. In this blog post, I will explain:
How to serve your entire blog using cloudfront.
DNS settings.
WordPress settings.
Documenting limitations of cloudfront.
Documenting performance improvements.