Not a direct answer to your question, but if it's the cost of the 3rd party CDN that is the issue, you might look at potentially cheaper alternatives like Azure Blob Storage or Amazon CloudFront. I am using Azure CDN (https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/caching/), which basically is just copying (drag and drop (http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer)) files to their blob storage and enabling the CDN feature (https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/other/cdn/) checkbox. If your company has a Microsoft MSDN or Partner account then you already have 25-45GB of storage (https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/#cdn) and traffic "free" per month.
Sorry it sounded like a Azure advertisement… just hoped you could avoid rolling your own, which would require at least: custom location-aware DNS hosting (dyn.com can do this and I'm a big fan of them in general) an automated distribution system for files. Rolling your own will certainly cost more then the big boys… so maybe it's not a cost driven decision for them? Lastly if you don't get good traction here, you might try posting to serverfault.com with a answerable question like "How do I roll-my-own CDN servers?" -- Bret Fisher, CEO and Co-Founder WinSitter.com @BretFisher On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Jeremy Charles wrote: > I’ve been asked to look in to what it would take for my employer to build its > own content delivery network hosted on our own hardware at various physical > locations around the world (all two of them, soon to be four). The intent is > to host our own content, not anybody else’s. > > If you’ve done this or looked in to doing this yourself, I’d be interested in > leads regarding what you used. Google is showing me plenty of vendors who > are willing to sell me the service of hosting my private CDN (say what?), but > I’m not finding leads on what tools I would use to build it myself. > > > > For completeness: I don’t yet understand why the business wants to do this > in lieu of continuing to use the CDN we’ve been contracting with for the past > few years. I’m asking about that in parallel with being a team player and > figuring out the answer to the question they’ve asked me. :-) > > === > Jeremy Charles, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > Epic's Computer and Technology Services Division > > Phone: 608-271-9000, Fax 608-271-7237 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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