Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Marco Fretz
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 CW who then sold it to blah, blah and it finally ended up at Savvis. There were several lawsuits with

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Mathias Schrem
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Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Martin Ebnoether
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

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Marco Fretz
Jeroen Massar wrote: Marco Fretz wrote: [..] ... but maybe I'm just crazy and you might simply ignore this post :-) Most people know *how* to do it (fail-over anycast presto), the economics, deploying it worldwide and getting a good solid customer base factor are other factors though. as

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Marcel Prisi
Hi, There is already some software there : http://www.globule.org/ Looks quite dead, but seemed to work quite well ... Might be a start. Le mardi 02 septembre 2008 à 10:38 +0200, Marco Fretz a écrit : Hi everyone, I think most of you now Akamai and how they deliver 20% of total internet

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Silvan Gebhardt
well, I am actually building one for a american company. End-Stage will be ~600 Processing servers (backend) and around 100 delivery Servers. I work with Squid. contact me offlist if interested because I am partially under NDA (fredy is the only one yet that I have spoken about it with him

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Marco Fretz wrote: Jeroen Massar wrote: Marco Fretz wrote: [..] ... but maybe I'm just crazy and you might simply ignore this post :-) Most people know *how* to do it (fail-over anycast presto), the economics, deploying it worldwide and

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Marco Fretz
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: Guys, are you intending to build a service, or just want to play around? A service would involve hardware investment, SLA, on-call support staff, sales personnel, and tons of other investment - are you willing to start that today? I just want to know if and how

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Marco Fretz
Claudio Jeker wrote: Corrected, your wrong. TCP works just fine for short living TCP sessions (like 99% of all traffic). If you're routing is stable you always end up at the same site. Only on bgp route changes that influence the path to the anycast network you may get session drops because

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Jeroen Massar
Marco Fretz wrote: Claudio Jeker wrote: Corrected, your wrong. TCP works just fine for short living TCP sessions (like 99% of all traffic). If you're routing is stable you always end up at the same site. Only on bgp route changes that influence the path to the anycast network you may get

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Marco Fretz
Jeroen Massar wrote: [..] Ok, thank you Jeroen and Claudio for this explanations about anycasting. But is there anyone using anycasts for HTTP content? I think its only used for DNS, etc... am I wrong? Wrong. google(anycast http) google(anycast) google(distributed content system) etc etc

Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

2008-09-02 Diskussionsfäden Scott Weeks
more than a fun and interesting project. scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marco Fretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai? Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:38:08 +0200 Hi everyone, I think most of you now Akamai and how they deliver 20