[thelist] Implementing a Content Delivery Network
ryan
ryan at northxsouth.com
Fri Apr 11 10:42:14 CDT 2008
Randal Rust wrote:
> So what would our options be? Set up a second server that is used to
> manage the images? Like images.example.com?
Hello,
Unfortunately, this project won't immediately help you but some people
might be interested in the new distributed Content Storage & Delivery
Network being worked on as a project of the Independent Media Center,
primarily being discussed at the various Techmeet Developer Summits that
have happened the last two years (and this year).
The architecture of the proposed CDN is pretty interesting. It includes
webservers, mid-tier servers running ICE (Internet Communications
Engine) and a MySQL backend (configured however, probably with
geographically-distributed replication).
This project, incidentally, is seeking volunteer developers if this
sounds interesting to anyone reading this. The main goals of the project
are specific to problems that the Independent Media Centers have had:
1) making the network impervious to 'server seizures' by law enforcement
in any country (IMC has 150+ nodes all over the world, operating under
all kinds of governments),
2) making the network impervious to data loss,
3) making the network impervious to DMCA take-down orders or other
reasons why a given provider might force a particular server to 'power off'
The idea is that there are many webservers, many mid-tier servers and
many backend servers. The loss of any *one* machine won't make a bit of
difference in the storage or delivery of any content.
Here are some places you kind find more information on this:
1) Primary development site is http://dev.bunke.indymedia.org/
2) More info on the Techmeet Summits can be found at
http://www.techmeet.org/
3) More info on IMC-Tech can be found at http://tech.indymedia.org/
And! If you're in San Francisco and going to LUG-Radio this weekend at
the Metreon, stop by the San Francisco Community Colo table for more
information on all this and more! We'll be there and would love to talk
with anyone else who is interested in this stuff. :)
-ryan
P.S. I'm originally from NE Ohio -- go Browns/Buckeyes!
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