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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:@reiver@mastodon.social (2026-06-03 09:23:56)
P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are definitely affordable commercial choices for CDNs for smaller sites and home-labers.

But, if you are trying to build a community (with many, many users) — a CDN can become expensive. Even very expensive.

(Electronic Arts (EA) has a whole team that takes up half a floor whose job iis to negotiate pricing from the Akamai CDN company.)

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#FediDev #CDN #ContentDeliveryNetwork #ContentDistributionNetwork
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:@reiver@mastodon.social (2026-06-03 09:30:45)
P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are techniques for creating a CDN that can support a community while keeping costs down.

You can trace the history of these techniques back to at least the 1990s.

Broadly speaking, these techniques were use with:

BitTorrent, Private BitTorrent Trackers, and Direct Connect.

I think the Fediverse can and should learn from these techniques, and put them to use.

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#FediDev #CDN #ContentDeliveryNetwork #ContentDistributionNetwork

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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-06-03 09:33:37)
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