Limelight recieved an update
Today I had to change out some of our cached content, and wouldn't you know it, limelight has upgraded their website (it sure looks nice, but now requests take 10-30 minutes instead of 45 seconds 
). Anyway, I figured that I would go ahead and make an update post with the instructions on how to clear an image/page.
1 - To use limelight, you still go to the same place, http://reports.llnw.com/. You'll probably notice that the login page looks much nicer than before, and we still use the same username/pass to get in, so if you forgot what it is then check with Ninja, Brett, Brandon, Brett/Burt, or me.
2 - When you log in, you get dumped at this empty page... click on "Tools" in the upper right corner of the screen.
3 - And here is our purge list. Much nicer to look at, and it's been ajax'd! You can sort through requests (although there are not many listed right now 
) but more importantly, you can click on the tiny "Add Request" link on the upper right side (next to the 'Search' box).
4 - The submit is pretty self explanitory, although make sure that you click the drop-down menu on the top left and pick a "ShortName", if you don't you'll just get errors when you try to submit your purge request. After you have picked a name, type in the url you want cleared (you can either use the limelight address (images.whatever.com) or the standard 3dubs (www.whatever.com). Then if you want a confirmation email fill out the bottom form, otherwise click on the "Submit Request" button. You'll then hit a re-direct that dumps you back at the reports page.
5 - Wait 10 - 40 minutes... seriously... I'm not kidding, and if you think I am, check out those request times in the screen shot (the requested vs. completed columns).
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Limelight, the content cacher
No doubt you've run into this by now. You just got an image from the design group and you placed it out on the live server. You refresh the page, and boom, nothing happens. Here's how to get around it.
- Log onto http://reports.llnw.com
- Use our log in name and password (aquire from confluence, ninja, ben, brandon, or me)
- click on the 'Tools' tab
- Click on "Add Request" (over on the far right of the screen)
- enter the full URL path into the 'URL' field (I'm a little hazy on leaving the images.sitename.com versus the 3w's)
- click "Submit Request"
- watch the screen load and wait 10-180 seconds.
It should update to the new URL path you threw in, go and check your site to make sure that your image change was successful.
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