Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

Post by ddorian43 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 11:39 AM UTC

RKearney wrote: post #46

danielrhodes wrote: post #41

I would highly recommend Varnish using S3 as a backend origin. Add to that a few 100TB.com dedicated server and you have an extremely cheap CDN with pretty decent bandwidth and minimal maintenance. CDNs have the advantage that they control more of the stack so can do more precise routing and have more edge nodes in more places. However, under the right circumstances, you can take the above quite far before a real CDN…

100TB.com specifically forbids using their service to create a CDN in their ToS[0]. 9. Acceptable Use/Illegal Activity d. We strive to maintain a high level of service, and a lot of customers depend on our high standards of quality. As such, we will not provide Services to those that are using our Services for: vii Using the Services for a content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN). An authorized…

Post by nly » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

chrisan wrote: post #69

pushrax wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, with DigitalOcean, you get quite a lot of bandwidth for the price. Additionally, their transfer limits are high (1TB for the $5 instances), and overage is only $0.02/GB. If you combine this with something like Route 53's anycast latency-routed DNS, it can work very well.

with DigitalOcean they ask you do not run a CDN: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/do-you-have...

Post by tmaly » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 12:02 PM UTC

acoyfellow wrote: post #70

natch wrote: post #27

Nice. For tutorials like this it would be nice to see more details on the "how" of each step. For example: "We setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..." That's great, but it would be nice to see: "Using the geodns web-based configuration tool, we setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..." or "Running on , we setup DNS info to point here (both NS1 and NS2..." or "By editing /etc/ on the , we setup DNS…

I think Genius and DigitalOcean = a match made in heaven. The quality would go from "the best" to "untouchable", if the comments were value adding. Imagine being able to dive deeper into any piece of the tutorial you wanted.

Post by khalidmbajwa » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 12:10 PM UTC

tmaly wrote: post #75

acoyfellow wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Genius and DigitalOcean = a match made in heaven. The quality would go from "the best" to "untouchable", if the comments were value adding. Imagine being able to dive deeper into any piece of the tutorial you wanted.

not to sound like a n00b, but what is Genius in your context?

Post by Lennie » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:23 PM UTC

mxpxrocks10 wrote: post #23

akerl_ wrote: post #11

I'm more than a little bit concerned that the article doesn't point out the serious risk of running a single DNS server for the records. I get that they're trying to keep things simple for their demo, but unsuspecting folks following this guide are in for quite a shock when their GeoDNS is taken out by a single physical server fault.

added this to the article in the "Todo" section. thanks for the feedback.