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BootstrapCDN
Initial release2012
Operating systemCross-platform (web-based application)
TypeFree CDN
Websitewww.bootstrapcdn.com

BootstrapCDN is a free and public content delivery network. Users of BootstrapCDN can load CSS, JavaScript and images remotely, from its servers. Bootstrap uses NetDNA's global content delivery network, which makes websites using its service resilient to unexpected surges in web traffic.

History

Twitter Bootstrap was founded by two former Twitter software engineers, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton as a front end for web development, with templates for forms, buttons and other user interface items. Twitter Bootstrap was open sourced in August 2011. NetDNA launched BootstrapCDN, the free content delivery network aspect of Bootstrap, with a beta launch on June 7, 2012 and a stable launch on on July 5, 2012.. (Otto and Thornton did not develop BootstrapCDN.)[1] Stanford University, Angry Birds and Gizmodo utilize BootstrapCDN. [2]

Font Awesome, a font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap, was incorporated into BootstrapCDN on August 21, 2012. The font offers CSS-friendly scalable vector icons that is CSS-friendly for customization.[3]

As of July 5, 2013 -- a year after  it launched -- BootstrapCDN transferred 40.73 Terabytes and served 3.2 billion requests, with 383 changes to its Github repository (git commits). Font Aweome was its most popular requested file with 338,329,273 hits. [4]


Usage

Developers can access BootstrapCDN's CSS (responsive, no icons) with the following:

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

BootstrapCDN's JavaScript libraries:

<script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

Optionally, the complete Bootstrap CSS (no icons):

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.no-icons.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

See also

References

  1. ^ "Open Source". NetDNA. Retrieved Aug 8, 2013.
  2. ^ "BootstrapCDN". BootstrapCDN. Retrieved Aug 8, 2013.
  3. ^ "Bootstrap 2.1.0 and Font Awesome Support". NetDNA. Retrieved Aug 8, 2013.
  4. ^ "Happy 1st Birthday BootstrapCDN". NetDNA. Retrieved Aug 8, 2013.
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