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

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