Question

So let me start off by saying I’ve never used a CDN before. The way I understand it working is it basically looks for a file and grabs it if it exists and uses a file local to the server if it doesn’t.

So we’re using Telerik and have many script groups. Example:

@(Html.Telerik().ScriptRegistrar()
        .jQuery(false)
        .Scripts(scripts =>
            scripts.AddGroup("PublicLayoutScripts", group =>
                group
                    .Add("script1.js")
                    .Add("script2.js")
                    .Add("script3.js")
                    .Combined(true)
                    .Compress(true)
                    .CacheDurationInDays(0.0416f)//one hour
                    .ContentDeliveryNetworkUrl("url/to/precompiled/assets/file").
        ))
)

So we have this script group, Telerik combines/compresses the scripts and creates an asset.axd file and returns the html to reference that file.

My question at this point is, does Telerik have a way of taking defined groups of files, and combining/compressing then outputting the .axd files to the harddrive where they can be uploaded to the CDN.

I’ve googled quite a bit for it and didn’t find much, maybe my key words for it aren’t up to par though. Also, using Telerik’s CDN is not an alternative solution.

Answer 1

Amazon’s cloud service supports a target origin which basically allows the files to be retrieved from your site if they don’t exist on the CDN.