Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?
On the Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Marco Fretz blubbered: Hallo. > I think most of you now Akamai and how they deliver 20% of total > internet content traffic... > > This looks like a good explanation: > http://research.microsoft.com/~ratul/akamai.html > > Has anyone tried to build a system similar to Akamai? I should be > possible to build it, in a smaller way of course. Some modified named > (bind) servers, Squid, etc. On a side note, there is the Coral Content Distribution Network, that can be used for free for single files or websites for free. It acts like a giant worldwide proxy as I understand it. http://www.coralcdn.org/ CU, Venty -- What we're planning here is world domination. ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?
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Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?
Scott Weeks wrote: > > > There're a lot of players in that space. I used to work for a company called > Digital Island that bought Sandpiper to get their Footprint CDN. This was > then sold to C&W who then sold it to blah, blah and it finally ended up at > Savvis. There were several lawsuits with Akamai (a Hawaiian word for smart, > clever or intelligent BTW) in the US about who invented what first. Akamai > came out on top from what I heard after leaving the company. > > http://www.savvis.net/corp/Products+Services/Content+Delivery+Network/default thanks for this information. > > You should be sure to do the market research before doing anything more than > a fun and interesting project. as I wrote before, I'm just interested in the technology. I don't want to build a CDN for productive use. We're quite happy with our clustered hosting platform. > > scott ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
