Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance

Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by emmett on Thursday January 17, 2008 @01:14PM (#99874)

So, technically, the software we've written is a distributed flash video distribution system, of the type one could use to run a CDN.

But "distributed flash video system" is like 20 characters longer and a lot harder to say than CDN.

It runs partly on EC2, partly on our own servers right now, and relies on the properties of neither.

It's much, much cheaper than buying software from Adobe or Wowza or paying a CDN.

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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by iamelgringo on Thursday January 17, 2008 @03:12PM (#99928)

Are you going to offer streaming services to other companies?

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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by emmett on Thursday January 17, 2008 @07:29PM (#100070)

It's still under too much development and too unstable to offer an outside API, but it's something we're very much considering.

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