Gavin Pearce

This site, you may have noticed, is very image intensive. The Fern overlay in the background is a good 800kb on it’s own – way above any recommended guidelines for most of the commercial sites we produce. That said, this site is also my personal playground – and I decided on this project to keep the effects.

To speed things up somewhat, all large files hosted on this website are now called via the Rackspace Cloud Files CDN. This means wherever you are in the world, you should be downloading the largest parts of this site from a server very local to you, rather than a server that’s maybe the other side of the world.

Find out more about CDN’s here. I’d recommend Rackspace over Amazon’s offering any day!