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If learning is "fun" for you, you can play around with BGP and build your own global CDN with Anycast.
by hendi_ 3y ago
If learning is "fun" for you, you can play around with BGP and build your own global CDN with Anycast.
- uxp8u61q 3y agoUnless you actually have several machines spread around the globe, you're not building a "global" CDN.
- dan353hehe 3y agoWell if it’s for learning, you can rent vms from hosting providers. That’s a fairly inexpensive way to learn about BGP with a global “toy” CDN. I have a small ipv6 subnet I purchased for just this purpose. It was interesting setting everything up in multiple locations and seeing traffic routing around as I turned machines on and off. I also set up my machines as a reverse proxy of a sort, a small fake CDN, and experimented with caching at different locations and moving content around. I would have gotten a bit more serious about it, but I’m still on the waiting list for an ipv4 subnet after 2 years. And pretty sure it would be too expensive now. Would have to check though.