Weblog entry #274 for simonw

Which Content Delivery/Distribution Network ?
Posted by simonw on Mon 18 Aug 2008 at 17:43
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We used a Squid reverse proxy hosted in a good data centre many moons ago.

We need a similar setup now whilst we sort out relocating current servers, and such like, to off load serving of static pages and other static content for some websites.

I (well Google) failed to find a quick and dirty reverse proxy server network being offered.

Everyone offering CDN wants me to ring them up (which I'm guessing we'll have to pay the sales staff salary as well).

We don't need the earth here, just a few megabits per second, ideally caches in both London and the US, London would do at a push, but unless someone knows of a sensibly priced third party solution, we'll get a virtual server or two from some good webhosts, and run Squid as a reverse proxy for a few months.

So before I start ringing up sales folk - who should be top of my list?

I'm figuring anything that requires more than "domain name" "IP address of current server", some sort of DNS delegation from us for the DNS records in question, and a credit card number, is too complex and we won't want to play. Anyone who hasn't automated the sale of the above is probably too expensive....

 

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Posted by Anonymous (84.255.xx.xx) on Mon 18 Aug 2008 at 20:18
as everything else operated by money, CDN's work best in developed countries, so london/us should be no problem. They are by no means cheap however...

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Posted by GhostR (217.237.xx.xx) on Tue 19 Aug 2008 at 08:33
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I dont know where your customers are based mainly, but I would look into hosting in frankfurt germany close to DE-CIX, hosting prices are way cheaper then in London and pearing to UK is no problem. We are hosting with www.hetzner.de and since this week I moved my privat servers also to them. The hardware is pretty good, network improved a lot. we run xens there. how much traffic do you need and how many hits do you approximate for Europe and how much RAM do you think you would require for a virtual proxy?

For CDN/SCD I m hearing alot of good things about http://www.ntteuropeonline.com I dont know how much they charge tough.

Cheers, Toby

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