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mranton

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About mranton

co-founder and CEO at FarbaCDN.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164554

At Farba, we are building a zero-cost CDN infrastructure where all edge servers belong to anonymous Peers. A Peer can rent a server, set up a competitive price, and earn money when serving someone's static web content. Customers can save up to 10x on their traffic bills using our distributed network. It's like Uber but for CDN.

Ping me if you want to reduce your CDN traffic bills ( (at) farbacdn.com)

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    via Dan Rayburn: """ My bullet point high-level thoughts on the Super Bowl stream: - Numbers aren’t out yet, but I would expect an AMA number of under 9 million (2023 was 7 million…

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    bunny.net is a Slovenian global company with no affiliation with Russia.

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    The more CDN providers, the more choices you have for less money. If you are using Vultr as a hosting provider, it's much easier to enable/disable CDN out of the control panel.

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    everything works in our sandbox. We need a couple of customers to collect real data. I'll definitely going to post again with these numbers.

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    >Or, the site owner could manipulate the coordination JavaScript to report the downloaded file as invalid/corrupt/tampered with, and then just not re-request the file (and there's …

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    for unpopular content, we will deploy a limited number of servers (belong to Farba) with a performant disk subsystem. A web cache storage is a separate option in every CDN: if you …

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    to answer this question, I will write another article how we distribute cache among the Peers. Long story short: - we divide web cache in buckets - these buckets have different siz…

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    A customer can switch on/off regions. Also, they can set up a cap for every region. You can do it with regular CDNs as well, it's just a setting.

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    >The Red Swoosh peercasting tool is a _browser_extension_ that caches data, reflecting and sharing files delivered through the "Swoosh network" I don't know how it works in details…

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    Thank you, @jeroenhd, you got it right. >now your battery-starved mobile phone is validating cryptographic signatures with a native app, it costs nothing. Actually, the main power …

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    >Hopefully you at least make sure to try and return a single host for all the objects in a request. our goal is to saturate the _User's_ network. Now it's hard to say how many Peer…

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    >Your example servers have 16-32 GB of memory, which is basically nothing we just need to add more Peers and evenly distribute the workload. > what kind of cache hit rate are you e…

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    I'm collecting use cases when Cloudflare stopped service for a "non-web content" rule violation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212

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    IPFS is very slow. It's like a cold storage. Not good for web-cache at all. Though Cloudlare provides gateways for IPFS, and again, we have a CDN layer here. It would be nice to se…

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    >a CDN isn't just about bandwidth, it is about _disk_ The disk performance - is the weakest part of the Peer. It is a part you can't guarantee any QoS on a cheap server. The idea i…

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    >1. Performance. also please note: if you have 1 image on the page - we have to do 2 requests (1 metadata, 1 download) if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests…

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    kind of. They are WebRTC-based CDN.