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MysticRyuujin
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AWS?
want to roll your own, eh? couldn't comment on africa, but i can tell you what i've strung together. i've done some work recently with video, albeit on a small scale (US/Canada). i started off with amazon thinking i'd be set, but yes, the fees definitely began to hurt the working budget i had with all the nickel and dime bullshit. time to engineer something. i still wanted the scalability of aws, without the constant headache of aws and fluctuating bills. shopped around for dedicated, and settled with 100tb.com for that sweet, sweet bandwidth allotment. they're a softlayer re-seller. so basically softlayer DCs, gear and support at cheap ass prices.
my origin cluster lives at softlayer WDC, and i have 10 edge nodes (dedicated) spread out on their network. all incoming encoder feeds get processed at origin (transcoding, multi-bitrate, packetization, securetoken) as well as short term storage for all dvr and recording functionality if applicable.
anyway, if/when capacity on any given softlayer node exceeds 65% network capacity, aws will spin up instances in the nearest geographic region to the congested node and start balancing connections out. as it's grown, i have tried to stay ahead of needing amazon.. but it's nice to have that fallback. was a super fun project as well. quite a bit of work, but it's saved a lot of money in bandwidth.
my origin cluster lives at softlayer WDC, and i have 10 edge nodes (dedicated) spread out on their network. all incoming encoder feeds get processed at origin (transcoding, multi-bitrate, packetization, securetoken) as well as short term storage for all dvr and recording functionality if applicable.
anyway, if/when capacity on any given softlayer node exceeds 65% network capacity, aws will spin up instances in the nearest geographic region to the congested node and start balancing connections out. as it's grown, i have tried to stay ahead of needing amazon.. but it's nice to have that fallback. was a super fun project as well. quite a bit of work, but it's saved a lot of money in bandwidth.
want to roll your own, eh? couldn't comment on africa, but i can tell you what i've strung together. i've done some work recently with video, albeit on a small scale (US/Canada). i started off with amazon thinking i'd be set, but yes, the fees definitely began to hurt the working budget i had with all the nickel and dime bullshit. time to engineer something. i still wanted the scalability of aws, without the constant headache of aws and fluctuating bills. shopped around for dedicated, and settled with 100tb.com for that sweet, sweet bandwidth allotment. they're a softlayer re-seller. so basically softlayer DCs, gear and support at cheap ass prices.
my origin cluster lives at softlayer WDC, and i have 10 edge nodes (dedicated) spread out on their network. all incoming encoder feeds get processed at origin (transcoding, multi-bitrate, packetization, securetoken) as well as short term storage for all dvr and recording functionality if applicable.
anyway, if/when capacity on any given softlayer node exceeds 65% network capacity, aws will spin up instances in the nearest geographic region to the congested node and start balancing connections out. as it's grown, i have tried to stay ahead of needing amazon.. but it's nice to have that fallback. was a super fun project as well. quite a bit of work, but it's saved a lot of money in bandwidth.
I know Softlayer's work. I deploy 30% of my current servers with them. The others go with Voxility in EU and US. I had the same pleasure just like you in transferring from aws to dedicated infrastructure nodes. Especially when support guys know what they're doing