[ksec]

Really, why would that be the case? I mean the difference in Latency.

A self set up Linode CDN with all six location Tokyo, JP London, UK Newark, NJ Atlanta, GA Dallas, TX Fremont, CA

Would have provided 48TB of Pooled bandwidth at a very decent speed and cost around $480. Linode's Network are great, much better then DO. I am not sure if it match CloudFront, which isn't exactly the fastest CDN anyway.

[sitkack]

Great info. Did you use rsync and push data out in a tree? How did you handle DNS? Did you do 302 requests to closer servers (by some metric) ?

[driverdan]

Having volunteers spend countless hours to setup and maintain their own CDN is a preposterous idea.

[ksec]

Here

http://psyphi.net/blog/2013/12/content-delivery-network-cdn-...

I have 10 fingers, so that is definitely not "countless" hours of work. And No, Maintenance are minimal or non existent. You could even get smaller VPS behind each node balancer as HA. Since Linode VPS ( Unlike DO ) are deployed on physically different hardware.

While i say it is fair enough to use AWS because money doesn't matter, i thought there are definitely some better alternative for the same price( if you really cared about latency ) or cheaper options.

[NKCSS]

Loved the blog posting :)