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 as he is the guy to host it :) )
Silvan
Am 02.09.2008 um 11:23 schrieb Marcel Prisi:
Hi,
There is already some software there :
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
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