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LEBs with much traffic
gsrdgrdghd
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Hello,
I am currently building a small CDN for non-profit use (see my other thread and i'm looking for cheap LEBs (<2€) with much traffic. Currently i have:
BuyVM 15$/year - 500gb traffic
misterhost.de 2€/month - 2tb traffic
What other hosts/packages to you guys know with a goof bucks:bandwidth ratio?
Comments
I am looking for similar many times, if that misterhost.de is real and it does provide 2 tb, grab it. I doubt they break even with that traffic, not to mention make proffit.
M
OVZ-128 128/256 10 GB 500 GB 1 $20/yr
At hostigation
How much bandwidth do you REALLY need monthly. Also what is you total monthly budget.
This will help people come up with a plan.
Also $1 will get you 316 GB Bandwidth.
The question is, do you need all this bandwidth and the CDN or you're playing around and doing nothing?
Why do I have the feeling that the OP is building his own "CDN" by stringing together a half-dozen LEBs across the planet...
Why do I have the feeling that there will not be a seamless failover if one of them goes offline...
That's pretty easy to code provided the main box that can geo-locate the requests is up all the time I've coded one but after that MaxCDN trial, I just use that.
Ehh you can have multiple systems for geolocating by using DNS to serve A records pointing to multiple hosts.
On the other hand, MaxCDN is quite fast and easy. Their mascot freaks me out though.
Wtf is that anyway?
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/1762/us-rethinkvps.com-leb-deal-unmetered-1gbs-vps-6.76, there is also a mention of another provider in comments
Depends on the setup. You can go ghetto style GeoDNS which works pretty well but if you don't have a setup adding/pulling servers from pools, you can end up with regions being dead.
Francisco
I'm using gdnsd which does HTTP checks every 10 seconds to see if the nodes are online and always returns the nearest, online node.
As said before, i can make a small tutorial on this if theres interest.
Well i want to use it to provide free hosting for open source/free projects.
I guess you should be asking yourself at this point, why should people choose your service over ohloh / sourceforge / google code and the like?
I second MaxCDN, they are way more reliable and CHEAP than stringing LEB's toghether.
Oh, and if you didn't know, you can get 1TB of MaxCDN for free ($35 value, free)
http://www.retailmenot.com/showcoupon/3370673/view11/
Why so negative? I see no harm in @gsrdgrdghd attempt and welcome every such project
@gsrdgrdghd with edis.at you can get 500GB for 1.45€/m and 1TB for 2.99€/m. And as you most likely know you can choose among plenty interesting locations like sweden, austria, italy. HDD quota can be limitating factor here.
Agree with @Spirit.
I can get like... 3-4TB for... $20 maybe? And not only Edis, other providers with 2-3USD boxes.
But of course, this is worth it when you have enough traffic to justify that cost.
Any idea what happens after the 1cent trial of MaxCDN? They will invoice me a full TB? Or I will start with the "pay as you go"?
@yomero I posted that deal here http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/1722/1-tb-cdn-almost-for-free 10 days ago, today @sonic reported coupon is expired
Just using MaxCDN is too easy, i wanna make something myself
Heres the gdnsd config:
http://pastebin.com/MSpAMcbc
And the relevant part of the zone file:
cdn 60 DYNA geoip!prod_cdn
Now with the same setup on 2 different nameservers, does anybody see a problem/single point of failure with this?