Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Nick, Thanks for your remarks. It's actually an ongoing discussion. Le 18/01/2024 à 18:24, Nick Hilliard a écrit : two issues here: the smaller issue is that CDNs sometimes want their own routable IP address blocks, especially if they're connecting directly to the IXP, which usually means /

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Nick Hilliard
Jérôme Nicolle wrote on 18/01/2024 14:38: Those I'm nearly sure I could get, if I can pool caches amongst ISPs. The current constraints are issues to any content provider, not just for local ISPs. two issues here: the smaller issue is that CDNs sometimes want their own routable IP address blo

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Gael Hernandez
Hosting authoritative and recursive dns servers at the IXP would drastically improve the experience of users most of the time. Of course, Stephane considerations are correct and there’s no solution for when global connectivity is lost and responses will stop being sent. Gaël On Thu 18 Jan 2024

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Tom, Le 18/01/2024 à 15:20, Tom Beecher a écrit : Many CDNs have hardware options for self hosted caches. I think there would likely be concerns about <20G of connectivity to those caches though. With an incorrect setup, you could end up maxing out those links just with cache fill traffic i

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Mike Hammett
anog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2024 8:38:31 AM Subject: Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP Hello Mehmet, Le 18/01/2024 à 12:58, Mehmet a écrit : > VMs are no go for big content companies except Microsoft. You can run > Microsoft CDN on VM but rest of the content wil

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hi Gael, Le 18/01/2024 à 13:48, Gael Hernandez a écrit : Friends from PCH (www.pch.net ) operate backend services for DNS authoritative ccTLDs and the Quad9 DNS resolver. They would be very happy to help. I'm sure they would, I'm a big fan of their work BTW. Though hosting

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hello Mehmet, Le 18/01/2024 à 12:58, Mehmet a écrit : VMs are no go for big content companies except Microsoft. You can run Microsoft CDN on VM but rest of the content will need to be cached. You can actually install this yourself I've already read most docs for caching servers provided by ma

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Tom Beecher
Many CDNs have hardware options for self hosted caches. I think there would likely be concerns about <20G of connectivity to those caches though. With an incorrect setup, you could end up maxing out those links just with cache fill traffic itself. On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 6:54 AM Jérôme Nicolle w

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:53:19PM +0100, Jérôme Nicolle wrote a message of 36 lines which said: > - Low redundancy of old cables (2) > - Total service loss when both cables are down because of congestion on > satelite backups A problem which is not often mentioned is that most (all?) "local

Re: Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Mehmet
Hi Jérôme VMs are no go for big content companies except Microsoft. You can run Microsoft CDN on VM but rest of the content will need to be cached. You can actually install this yourself Depending on how much traffic do you have , you may be able to get facebook, youtube, netflix caches i think m

Shared cache servers on an island's IXP

2024-01-18 Thread Jérôme Nicolle
Hello, I'm trying to find out the best way to consolidate connectivity on an island. The current issues are : - Low redundancy of old cables (2) - Low system capacity of said cables (<=20Gbps) - Total service loss when both cables are down because of congestion on satelite backups - Sheer pr