I definitely have not forgotten this aspect of it. Let's just say I've spent a lot of time on the phone for fun If we want to talk about running a CDN company

I definitely have not forgotten this aspect of it. Let's just say I've spent a lot of time on the phone for fun If we want to talk about running a CDN company in terms of lots of additional organizational complexity in terms of customer service it can't be done on a single engineer's salary. My perception of a homegrown CDN is one that rivals uptime and deliverability metrics of existing commercial CDN providers. Within an existing org it can be done. If we're talking outside of an existing org think http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/ http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/ to shave costs. If we're willing to define parameters on what level of service this CDN needs to meet and ramp up time I'd be willing to take it on.