Caching servers in Local ISPs !!

Steve Holdoway steve at greengecko.co.nz
Sat May 10 04:24:57 UTC 2014


You might want to look at lsyncd - a GZSOC project - to ease the
synchronisation. I have had good results with it.

Steve
On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 00:22 +0500, shahzaib shahzaib wrote:
> @itpp thanks for replying. 
> 
> 
> So on easy note, i would have to assign those machines the preferred
> dns and use rsync on regular basis in order to make identical data
> between local caching machines and main front end content servers ?
> 
> 
> What if a client request a video which is not in local caching
> server ? Does nginx has the configuration for it to check the files
> locally and then forward the request to main content servers if
> requested file is not cached locally ?
> 
> 
> I need a bit of guidance in order to configure nginx this way. 
> 
> 
> Shahzaib
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:49 PM, itpp2012 <nginx-forum at nginx.us>
> wrote:
>         Its quite simple, think of it this way, a DNS entry does not
>         have to point
>         to the same IP everywhere.
>         
>         Place your cache machines at a ISP, have them assign its IP to
>         your
>         preferred dns name, thats about it.
>         
>         The rest like distribution works like a reverse riverbed with
>         a master
>         mirror, rsync or the likes.
>         
>         And of course this can all be done with nginx at all
>         locations.
>         
>         Posted at Nginx Forum:
>         http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,249997,250000#msg-250000
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