]] Russ Allbery > Joey Hess <[email protected]> writes: > > >> Ultimately, we are of the opinion that the content delivery problem is a > >> solved one > > > But apparently not one solved by free software included in Debian. > > Perhaps it's worth avoiding using it if that will help encourage the > > development of libre alternatives.
Quite a few of the CDNs use free software. Both Varnish and squid are used, for instance. > CDNs aren't really software problems. They're infrastructure and network > peering problems. I think all the software required is in Debian, but the > data centers, peering arragements, route advertisements, and so forth are > things that only make sense to do at a larger scale than a single project. This is the main reason. The commercial CDNs are in a position where they have more manpower and can scale better than we can because of volume. > We can do a home-brewed CDN -- that, after all, is what the various > services referenced in the original message are. But one of the > commercial CDNs will have better performance and better load distribution > than one can do with software-only solutions without the peering setup and > data center distribution. We are already running CDNs, multiple of them: The mirror network, the security archive network, the web pages and a few more. What we don't have is the manpower and the infrastructure to run and maintain this as well as a CDN that does this as its primary business. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
