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MaxCDN guys are on top of things. Great service from them for over a year. No issue and handles 550k unique daily visitors with no problem.

Interesting, I've found the opposite ;)

With MaxCDN in the loop, we had random failures from various areas, and their support was rather anemic. Their UI had bugs which made our zones uneditable, and the whole experience was slightly better than nothing.

I've replaced it with a Ramdisk cache for my assets, served out of nginx, and it performs -dramatically- better.

Granted, that won't be possible for all workloads, but for me, it was a dramatic difference.

you can't be pushing much bw... anything over 1TB/month and they pass you off to their bigger network NetDNA.

yup, we only do around 200 to 250GB a month. We use them to serve very small files. We switching from AWS as they charge per request, whereas MaxCDN do not.

"This web site is not affiliated with or funded by Posthaven.com

Honestly we just want POSTHAVEN to use our CDN."

Nice piece of marketing by the CDN for very very little cost.

Even if Posthaven doesn't switch over, some number of devs/business owners will think of them when they are choosing a CDN.

We love posthaven too, already migrated several thousand posts across ten blogs, and have all the video transcoding, storage, deep link protection, and delivery features they'd need, at less cost than a stack of providers.

So Garry has more than one fan CDN he can choose from. ;-)

I like the idea of Posthaven, but the academic research lab I used to work with can't afford to move its ~10 Posterous blogs to Posthaven at $5 each per month.

One of the nice things about Posterous was that you could create new blogs freely to clearly separate different projects within an organization. Charging per-blog removes this affordance and we're back to the Wordpress-style monolithic blog.

I can't find anyway to contact the Posthaven guys about this.

Hey yeah email us garry@posthaven.com -- it's not per blog though, it's per account (10 blogs per account at $5/mo) -- sorry for the confusion.

The other thing we were thinking of doing is having "contributor" accounts per blog -- so each blog is owned by the primary admin, but contributors can contribute without a paying account.

Need custom CSS or at least logo linked to one's main site, need contribs, and need posting API. Thrilled with migration and performance so far. Hope you can get branding available before that countdown clock zeros!

Yes, contributors please! I've been looking for a WP alternative for my blog but I need the ability to invite guest posters.

Great, thanks. That should sort us out. Wasn't able to find that info on the Posthaven website.

That sounds like a good plan.

You can reach them through Twitter. https://twitter.com/posthaven

I'd recommend http://justmigrate.com/, which facilitates migrating to Tumblr.

I've always been of the opinion that Tumblr was the superior platform all along, and certainly beats shelling out $5 per month.

That is - until it dies a sad, slow, death just like Posterous "never" would.

In my opinion, Tumblr has far more endurance than Posterous ever did. Tumblr is a social hegemon and is making money, neither of which could be accomplished to any meaningful extent by Posterous.

Even if it was acquired, it's far too valuable of a property to simply be shut down.

> Tumblr is a social hegemon and is making money

Is it? I know it has revenue, but is it turning a profit?

If what you are doing on your blogs isn't worth $5/month each maybe you should stop.

It's nice you can import your posterous site (taken from the signup page)

Worked perfectly for us for thousands of posts with all kinds of media. Meanwhile, Posterous itself is still stuck on half the Backups of our blogs.

does posthaven have mp3 file size limit? tumblr's limit is around 10MB.

or, is there a user friendly blog authoring form interface that publishes pages and uploaded media to S3, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace Cloud File, .. etc?

Posthaven sounds too much like PlayHaven, the company that fired that developer over a dongle joke. Took me 5 minutes to realize it wasn't the same.

Personally, I love Quora of late. There is a huge audience there already (that are actually intelligent and I care about). There are tags for everything and comments and up/down votes, not to mention the real time aspect of everything.

So, if I want to write anything (thats not really technical), I'd probably use Quora at this point. Quora is all about content anyway, so your content a'int going anywhere. The ability to create new blog on Quora is pretty good too.

I feel bad about their aggressive user acquisition strategy needing everyone to sign up to even view the content and I wish they were much more open; but despite that, the platform, content there and the people there are too good for me to consider looking anywhere else for general writing.

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