Roll Your Own CDN

#1

Post by joesavage » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 7:50 PM UTC

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

#2

Post by pushrax » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 8:47 PM UTC

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations.

I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by rdl » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 8:51 PM UTC

pushrax wrote: post #2

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations. I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

I wonder if "run your own anycast network as a service" would ever make sense as a product. I can't see anyone other than CDN or testing being terribly interested, and a lot of this is included in the raw CDN use case.

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by samcrawford » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 8:56 PM UTC

rdl wrote: post #3

pushrax wrote: post #2

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations. I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

I wonder if "run your own anycast network as a service" would ever make sense as a product. I can't see anyone other than CDN or testing being terribly interested, and a lot of this is included in the raw CDN use case.

There is at least one already out there - http://www.hostvirtual.com/anycast-bgp-cloud/. You have to bring your own IP space (/24 minimum of course). I vaguely remember reading the charges were in the low thousands of dollars per month, but that was a while ago.

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by ambrop7 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:08 PM UTC

It must be so hard to expand the abbreviation once.

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by rdl » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:16 PM UTC

ambrop7 wrote: post #5

It must be so hard to expand the abbreviation once.

I think more people know "CDN" than the expansion (Content Distribution/Delivery Network).

Same is probably true for ATM (financial or 53-byte cell), POP, DNS, RFP, RFC, IMAP, SSL, ...

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by opendais » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:17 PM UTC

pushrax wrote: post #2

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations. I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

Route 53 now does GeoDNS so you can map it more accurately, for a few cents more.

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by opendais » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

rdl wrote: post #3

pushrax wrote: post #2

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations. I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

I wonder if "run your own anycast network as a service" would ever make sense as a product. I can't see anyone other than CDN or testing being terribly interested, and a lot of this is included in the raw CDN use case.

https://rage4.com/Home/ANY

Is that what you are looking for? They only have 3 locations tho.

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by Blackthorn » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:24 PM UTC

Please do not run your own DNS server if you do not have the knowledge or expertise to properly secure it. It is extremely irresponsible, and the article is also irresponsible for suggesting it and not having any information about rate limiting.

Re: Roll Your Own CDN

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Post by pushrax » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

opendais wrote: post #7

pushrax wrote: post #2

If you want to cut down on DNS-induced latency, Route 53 is a fairly good option. Their latency-routed DNS doesn't perfectly map to all geographical zones, but it works fairly well for DigitalOcean's locations. I wish it was easier/cheaper to run your own anycast network...

Route 53 now does GeoDNS so you can map it more accurately, for a few cents more. http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/

Awesome, didn't realize that! Will definitely be using it.