giltotherescue

Glad to see you guys continually innovating. Wish you the best of luck. -Gil from Gilded

What about all the copyright holders, such as Getty Images, that are circling the water, waiting for Pinterest to start making money so the rights holders can charge licensing fees? Any business model they come up with has to factor in the costs of legally acquiring all the photos they use.

I implemented exactly this for our application about a year ago. We managed to speed up the average backend response times for the entire site by about 500ms. Unfortunately, the cost of the edge servers + the anycast routing tech from a third party vendor was more than the business benefit we saw.

Logicworks in New Jersey/NYC and Peer1 in Atlanta.

I also use SQS from a non-EC2 app server environment. It's one less service I have to administer, and in my case the latency isn't an issue.

There's nothing stopping you from using a traditional CDN vendor as an application CDN. I spoke to the folks at Edgecast about this a year or two ago, and they didn't have a problem with it. However, it sounds like Amazon made some specific optimizations for application content which could be more appealing.

Also, CloudFlare offers the same service, but with added security and anti-spam features.

I second this

Last time I checked, at that volume one could get much better pricing by committing to a yearly contract through a traditional CDN vendor.

I encountered these types of problems on Cloudfront-powered sites all the time when I lived in Colorado. I frequently had issues using GitHub, Basecamp, etc. Only solution was to wait a few minutes and try again.

I'm glad that you offer the badge option, but I wish that was in addition to a $30-80/mo plan that I could pay for with cash...

It's exactly the same amount of effort to setup. I use both GA (for pageview tracking) and Mixpanel (for engagement tracking). Mixpanel's funnel tracker is more robust, and there is no GA equivalent to Mixpanel's retention analysis. Plus, Mixpanel's event tracking is truly real time.