I do agree with you and the others who have offered comments to the effect of it not being worth doing.
In order to illustrate why it's not worthwhile for us to do this, I need to investigate how I would go about doing it. If I say it's not worth doing but I have no clue what it involves, my opinion won't hold any water. I need to show that I have an understanding of what it would take *before* I can make a compelling argument that it's not worth doing. (Or maybe I'll be surprised and find that there is a reasonable and worthwhile way to do it...) So far, I have come up with these approaches today: 1) Buy IPv4 and IPv6 blocks to use for our own CDN and then upgrade my Internet feeds and equipment to advertise these from all of the places where we host our content. 2) Use geolocation information to build views in BIND that resolve the relevant domain names to the different servers that provide the content, based on perceived location. I feel that I've been able to show why #1 doesn't make financial sense and #2 involves lots of potential inaccuracy and unintended consequences (hint: You may be surprised as to whether clients in Dubai should be sent to my Wisconsin headquarters or my Amsterdam colo). Are there other approaches that I should also be looking at and evaluating? -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Reed [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:37 PM To: Jeremy Charles Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Build my own CDN On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:57:35AM PST, Jeremy Charles spake thusly: > 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. I highly recommend looking into one of the existing federated CDNs which you can join instead of your own CDN. They provide the software and handle accounting etc. and you can then use your spare storage/bandwidth to make some money utilizing your excess capacity. http://onapp.com/cdn/ is the one I am familiar with. -- Tracy Reed _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
