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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:09:04PM -0400, Eugene Gorelik wrote: > I am helping a startup company to build and maintain their IT infrastructure. > The core business of this company is to provide customers with > opportunity to build online multimedia albums with lots of photo and > videos. Do they derive money from the content that they ship, or is it independent? If they make money from content, then they need to figure out a model that makes delivery costs a reasonable percentage of the income derived from the same delivery. If they make content from something else, then they need to find a model that minimizes the cost of delivery, period. > 1. Build 2 additional hosting locations: one in West coast and one in > London and serve content based on customer's geolocation Doable, especially if all your customers are in the US and Western Europe. > 2. Use Content delivery network, like Akamai > 3. Use outsourced storage ( Amazon S3 ) for pictures, videos and other > large files. Amazon S3 also distributing content across multiple > datacenters providing > decent response time from any geolocation These two are essentially the same option, just from two different services. If you have simple computational needs, you can add Akamai Edge-side includes, or whatever they call it this year. If you have complex computational needs, you can add Amazon ECC machines. > I really like the idea of using Amazon S3, but this service is not > really cost effective if you have a lot of traffic (>10 TB/month) > Akamai CDN is not cheap either. Neither is intended to be cheap; they are intended to be cost-effective if you are already in the situation where you are considering managing multiple large content farms in global datacenters. -dsr- (used to work for AKAM) -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. When freedom gets lots of exercise, it protects itself. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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