I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about CDNs (content delivery networks) because of the challenges I’ve been dealing with user submitted photos on a highly trafficked site. Most projects I work on use Akamai with great success, but what about alternatives CDNs for personal projects? What first came to mind was Flickr. I mean why not? Flickr was built to serve photos so why couldn’t Flickr serve as a CDN for images on my site? The next thought that came to mind was Google. Google already caches websites and images, so why not use Google as a CDN? So I did a quick search and found a tutorial of how to write a Google Gadget that will cache images. Sounds perfect! Has anyone implemented this across their site? What are the caveats?
I also found this interesting P2P cache/CDN called Coral that is worth looking into.
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