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?
----- Original Message ---- > From: Marcel Prisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 11:23:31 AM > Subject: Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai? > > 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 _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
