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 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. > > From my point of view, Akamai does the right thing: Why try to have lots > of peerings, good transit connnections, etc. when you can serve the > content directly out of the most popular ISP networks. They don't need > their own network infrastructure for content delivery services (hosting). > > Is here anyone interested in this topic? Anyone has time and interest to > build, "research" and test a "small Akamai" hosting system? > > My idea is in general: > - 2-3 providers (one of you?) > - each ISP "donates" 2-3 servers for the project (physical or virtual) > - find a modified bind and squid or rebuild it to do this Akamai-like > "DNS and url magic" > - write a lot of shell scripts for monitoring, etc. > - test the bunch of magic with our company sites :P > > ... but maybe I'm just crazy and you might simply ignore this post :-) > > > thanks, have a nice day > best regards > Marco > > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
