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1. None of the issues I listed affect traditional CDNs though. 3. Why would the people running a peer have cheaper access to servers and bandwidth than a compa
by jsnell 4y ago
1. None of the issues I listed affect traditional CDNs though.
3. Why would the people running a peer have cheaper access to servers and bandwidth than a company specializing in that business? Everything about this business should have huge economies of scale (buying hardware, system administration, transit/peering).
The only situation where I can see a distributed model winning out is if the entity running the peer does not pay for resources but gets them with fraud or theft, e.g. paying for cloud servers with stolen credit cards.
- zamnos 4y agoIt's a matter of locale. Having an entrepreneur in South Africa or Tibet hear about the money making opportunity, setting up a peer, and then paying them for it is better than flying there for a month to set up a business presence and figuring out all the local everythings. Akamai et al has already done this, and charge money commensurate with having done that. This group seems to be banking on someone in Kathmandu hearing about this opportunity and setting up a peer there.
- iudqnolq 4y agoBut the majority of the valuable traffic will be coming from popular places. Wouldn't a CDN node in Tibet be a microoptimization after you've got datacenters in Virginia, SF, and Amsterdam?