Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?

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 system similar to Akamai? I should be possible to build it, in a smaller way of course. Some modified named (bind) servers, Squid, etc.

On a side note, there is the Coral Content Distribution Network, that can be used for free for single files or websites for free. It acts like a giant worldwide proxy as I understand it.

http://www.coralcdn.org/

CU, Venty