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Creating a Runabove CDN
PrincessOfCats
Member
Runabove has recently added CNAME support to its object storage systems, and as a result, it can be converted into a CDN.
You will need a GeoIP-capable DNS provider and a Runabove account.
Steps:
- Create a container on each location (BHS-1 and SBG-1)
- Store your files in each, making sure that they both have the same files.
- Go to 'Expert Mode', and choose 'Access and Security'. Click on the 'API Access' tab.
- Under 'Object Store', copy down everything after and including the word 'AUTH'. Change the underscore to a dash.
- Create a new CNAME record for your CDN and configure it with GeoIP. The record value (replacing the text in the curly brackets) should be in the form {containername}.{text_from_step4}.storage.{bhs-1|sbg-1}.runabove.io
Its obviously worse than any other CDN provider since Runabove only has two locations, but is extremely cheap. There is also no SSL support.
Comments
Amazon's CDN is pretty cheap too, I'm currently using it