Submission + - How does one go about building a private CDN?
ece writes: I've been tasked with building a smallish CDN for a semi-large online store (plenty of images and static files). It needs to extend from the US to south America, Europe, and Asia. The budget is thin so I need to build it using open source tools and software. Most importantly, I want to have complete control over the behavior of the CDN. Meaning, what gets cached, what gets purged, etc. Management has been working on getting servers in key countries so the project is gaining momentum and so is pressure. Akamai, amazon, google, and other contenders are out of the picture for several reasons. So please don't recommend them or any third party vendors.
There are very few tutorials online on how to create one. After several days of scouring the web and filtering through the fluff, I found the following tutorials / walk-throughs:
http://blog.unixy.net/2010/07/how-to-build-your-own-cdn-using-bind-geoip-nginx-and-varnish/
http://www.sajalkayan.com/make-your-own-cheap-charlie-cdn.html
How have you built your own CDN?
Cheers!
There are very few tutorials online on how to create one. After several days of scouring the web and filtering through the fluff, I found the following tutorials / walk-throughs:
http://blog.unixy.net/2010/07/how-to-build-your-own-cdn-using-bind-geoip-nginx-and-varnish/
http://www.sajalkayan.com/make-your-own-cheap-charlie-cdn.html
How have you built your own CDN?
Cheers!