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?
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From: Marcel Prisi marcel@virtua.ch To: swinog@swinog.ch Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 11:23:31 AM Subject: Re: [swinog] Content delivery system like Akamai?
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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Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
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?
I just want to know if and how it's possible to build a system like Akamai. Akamai is not using anycast or any other common thing and as you see they are quite successful! there must be a good reason why they're using their own solution.
I'm not interested in economic aspects at the moment and I don't want to build this system for productive use, now.
so yes, I just want to play around with it and I'm trying to find some guys who want to play, too :-)
and it seems that I started an exciting discussion... :)
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Marco Fretz -
Stanislav Sinyagin