Originally Posted by guice
Hey Dobly. Long time no chat. So, why not use a CDN? Their soul purpose on the web is to host files and distribute them. The three major ones I know of are Akamai, Amazon S3 and Nirvanix. I think S3 does a lot of lower level based CDN hosting -- as I see "sole developer" apps using it for their media data (images mostly). I've personally worked with Nirvanix and Amakai. Nirvanix has an awesome developer API allowing full manipulation of files on their server, while supplying direct download access to the files.
Just a thought. There's no need to carry the full burden on your own anymore. That's what the internet is for! 
Using a CDN would offload a good 90% of your traffic right off the bat. It would also make W-M's traffic moot. |
CDNs are not free. Would you like to front the money for it?
For those of you that are unaware: WoWI is run through very few servers. In fact, there is no rotation. We'd love to have a massive server farm, but that costs money. Money that, quite frankly, WoWMatrix is cutting into.