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Re: Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

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Post by davidcelis » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 8:31 PM UTC

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…

> Step 1: Order a DNS instance from Digital Ocean.

This also feels lacking to me. How does one order a DNS instance from DO? I can tell from the icon that it has something to do with CentOS but I don't see any sort of DNS server under their available applications or images for a one-click install.

Re: Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

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Post by lingben » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 8:48 PM UTC

Kudos wrote: post #65

lingben wrote: post #25

or you know, if your concern is cost, go with cdn.net and pay as you go for a kickass global cdn network full disclosure, I have no business or personal connection to them

There's 6TB of bandwidth built into this home rolled solution. That's going to cost at least $350 at cdn.net.

you're comparing apples to oranges

Re: Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

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Post by joesavage » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

wzy wrote: post #85

joesavage wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'll be on my blog, reinterpretcast.com and I'll probably tweet about it from @_joesavage. I'll probably also post to HN and Reddit, but I'm not sure if it'll gain much traction since it's so similar in concept to this article here.

It will, if its a detailed guide. This article, is an overview.

As expected (and possibly not aided by my timing, I'm unsure), my submission hasn't really gotten much attention - the link is here if you're interested though: http://www.reinterpretcast.com/roll-your-own-cdn