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What media are you trying to deliver? Traditional CDN are very expensive -- like cell phone minutes, you pay up-front for X number of GB. If you buy 1000GB and
by bprater 18y ago
What media are you trying to deliver? Traditional CDN are very expensive -- like cell phone minutes, you pay up-front for X number of GB. If you buy 1000GB and burn 20GB, you still pay your $10k/month bill.
Amazon is making a big play in this space, and doing a 'pay for what you eat'. Hopefully this will encourage CDNs to take a look at their pricing schedules.
- nixme 18y agoNot CDN service or delivering media. More like this proxy-type service he describes where you cut out a lot of middle-tier routing and pay for better backbone transit. For personal use, this would be a great way to proxy your own traffic when using the Internet overseas, where accessing US-based sites can be very slow. Or even for setting up a faster coast-to-coast VPN within the US.
- wmf 18y agoIt's been tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamerail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamerail
- seiji 18y agoDon't forget http://www.simplecdn.com/ http://www.simplecdn.com/ for a CDN too. You can save a lot by hosting on S3 and using simplecdn to serve the data.