nginx flv module and amazon storage

Fernando Flórez fernando at funciton.com
Mon Oct 12 22:58:30 MSD 2009


The advantage is that you could do "http streaming" of flv files ala  
youtube.

Cheers,

El 12/10/2009, a las 12:08, István escribió:

> what is the advantage of this over the amazon cdn, http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ 
>  ?
>
> now this is really offtopic, we can move to private with this thread
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:48 PM, zepolen <zepolen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why? You use the proxy_store mechanism as a cache - it would only keep
> the most used videos.
>
> In return you save on paying s3 outgoing bandwidth (and your own
> provider for incoming bandwith). Instead you only pay for your
> outgoing bandwidth on your local server for the times a cache hits.
>
> I don't do this for videos, but for images - instead of serving '000s
> of tb of data each month from s3, I use my local server which will do
> the same traffic for a third of the price.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:26 PM, István <leccine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > not rellay a cheap solution :)
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:14 AM, zepolen <zepolen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You could use proxy_store to save a local copy to the local  
> drive, and
> >> serve from nginx after that.
> >>
> >> However I am not sure if this would work wrt streaming.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Kingsley Foreman
> >> <kingsley at internode.com.au> wrote:
> >> > Id also love a module like this.
> >> >
> >> > something that converts the start= line it a content range for a
> >> > proxy_pass
> >> > and then returns the data as a normal 200 (from the byte range)
> >> >
> >> > It would make me a very happy man.
> >> >
> >> > Kingsley
> >> > From: Fernando Flórez
> >> > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 8:31 AM
> >> > To: nginx at sysoev.ru
> >> > Subject: Re: nginx flv module and amazon storage
> >> > I'm talking about S3. I know it works with local files but i  
> was hoping
> >> > to
> >> > be wrong :)
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > El 11/10/2009, a las 16:23, István escribió:
> >> >
> >> > Actually flv module works on local files, while -if you are  
> referring to
> >> > S3-
> >> > it is stored remotely.
> >> > Or, if you are talking about having an EC2 instance using EBS  
> storage it
> >> > is
> >> > possible.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Istvan
> >> >
> >> > 2009/10/11 Fernando Flórez <fernando at funciton.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> Quick question before trying it for myself. Is it possible to  
> use
> >> >> nginx's
> >> >> flv module with flv files stores on amazon's storage cloud?
> >> >>
> >> >> What i'm trying to achieve is to host the flv files on amazon  
> and serve
> >> >> the flv files with nginx. Any hints on how to accomplish this?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > the sun shines for all
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > the sun shines for all
> >
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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