Have you looked at using AWS? I believe that Cloudfront was created for this exact sort of thing. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/12/15/announcing-cloudfront-streaming/
Adam On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Wade Shearer <[email protected]>wrote: > The site isn't under my control and I won't have control over the > individual clients. Basically, I'd like any client that joins the network > (most are wireless) pull from the mirror. > > > On 26 Jun 2013, at 16:27 , "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is the website under your control? If not you could probably do ok > > sticking a mirror up and updating the hosts file to point to the mirror. > > If it is under your control you could probably set the cache flag and > cache > > expiration to aggressive and never respectively. This would help a lot > > since intermediary servers would tend to cache it closer to home. > Another > > option again if things are under your control is to use a CDN such as > > Cloudfront to get the content closer to the end user. > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Wade Shearer <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> I manage internet at a facility where internet speeds are insufficient. > >> Increasing the speeds is not an option. The primary issue is streaming > >> video. Most of the video is played from a single website. So, I'm > looking > >> into the possibility of setting up some sort of proxy that mirrors the > >> content internally. I'd like it to be seamless so that when the files > are > >> requested, the user is oblivious to the fact that they are getting a > local, > >> cached version. The video changes infrequently so it could have a long > >> expiration date. > >> > >> What would it take to make something like this work? > >> > >> /* > >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > >> Don't fear the penguin. > >> */ > >> > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
