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What are the Open Source Mature Equivalent of Amazon CloudFront?


I would like not to tight with aws technologies and I was wondering what are the Open Source Mature Equivalent of Amazon CloudFront?


Solution

  • CDN is not some software which can have open-source.. It is a network of computers ( POPs ) i.e. lots of hardware, server, bandwidths are needed to implement a CDN. Hence, open source is not possible. Regarding getting tied up with AWS; all you need to do is create a different URL suppose for all media URLS like http://cdn.example.com .. And all the static content which should be served via CDN should be put on this URL.. something like http://cdn.example.com/abc.jpg Now, you can just create A records, B records on your DNS server to point to Amazon Cloud Front.. if suppose tomorrow you want to switch your cloud front; all you need to do is change these records on dns server.. Thats it. You are in no way tied with amazon.