Rackspace Cloud now with Akamai CDN

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Sweet... their Cloudfiles CDN is now going to be switched to Akamai's network! That means you bitches can host files internationally and get them served here locally since Akamai has a presence in South Africa.

I think last time I checked the price for 100gb transfer was around $18, storage was at $15 per 100gb. Which means you can put up a nice little website with MP3 downloads or whatever the **** you want, and for R226 odd have 100gb transfer LOCALLY with 100gb storage...

Talking bandwidth only, that's R1.24 per gig. Hosting in the borders of South Africa will get you 24mb in overage costs for the same price!
 
You'll probably have to route-sentry it...the cloudfiles control servers will still be on int. I don't think you can hotlink akamai directly?
 
You'll probably have to route-sentry it...the cloudfiles control servers will still be on int. I don't think you can hotlink akamai directly?
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lol. have another spliff man.
 
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HavocXphere said:
You'll probably have to route-sentry it...the cloudfiles control servers will still be on int. I don't think you can hotlink akamai directly?
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Unless your ISP *really sucks* (like Web Africa) then yes, you might have to do some form of host file edit to resolve to the local IP's of Akamai's CDN. But nothing dramatic like using Route Sentry, unless you're still on a cap and have a local account as well and NEED it to split between international and local... **** knows why you'd still be doing that though, get MWEB uncapped...?

Anyway, the CDN is in the background and works seamlessly, so if the local link is down it will just use the international one. The thing here is your ISP's DNS servers resolves to the local IP automatically for you. Since they see "bladiebla.akamai.net" or whatever and requests the IP from the parent DNS server, their DNS server checks and goes "hey, you have a local IP for that, here you go". So if you're with Web Africa you'll see a lot of international **** going down like that (since their DNS servers are *** beyond belief), but for 99% of the other ISP's, akamai is local and will always be local. Even on a local-only connection you'd resolve to akamai's local server here and get to access the content.

You could have a piss-ant shared local server you pay R50 for (or get for free from cybersmart or someone) and host huge ass downloads on akamai. A dedicated server with 30gb local transfer sets you back 2-3k a month. Free + 100gb transfer = R230 a month.
 
Scripts, DB and all the rest of the core will still be international, you will not achieve a local hosting package using a cdn
 
I wasn't talking about IPs and DNS servers. Worst case scenario you hardlink it to the IP.

Looks like I was wrong though about how these cloud services do encryption keys & authorization. I thought its a separate central server controlling that, but apparently not.

Just figured out I can link directly to the Amazon cloud to get to my dropbox files.:wtf:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106416/Untitled.png
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http://dl-balancer2-897559391.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/u/106416/Untitled.png

So you're right, it might work on pure local. Nice.
 
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