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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/fr6nco on 2025-06-26 11:10:15+00:00.
Hello redditors,
I've decided to post here about my project which I started recently. In the past I built a few CDNs for smaller/larger companies. For those who doesn't know what a CDN (Content Delivery Network), it's a system that ensures that you can get your content closer to your client to speed up load times.
I absolutely understand that is is almost impossible to penetrate this market with players like Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, CDN77 etc, yet there are a few use cases where rolling out your own CDN makes sense (e.g. ISPs with VoD/TV services).
Currently I'm building it on a Lab, since running my instances on cloud would probably cost a lot, and I'm assuming I'm somewhere at 50% from having an MVP ready.
I'm building this completely publicly, so feel free to take a peek on the source codes: https://github.com/EdgeCDN-X
For the geeky ones, I'm building it completely on top of Kubernetes and ArgoCD with several custom operators, due to it's amazing capabilities on orchestration. I'm building a few CoreDNS plugins to achieve GeoLookup routing.
My main questions towards the community are:
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if you use a CDN, how much data do you distribute monthly and what is your monthly cloud fee, what provider do you use?
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Did you consider self hosting a CDN before
Anyone who is interested on updates, feel free to follow the github project or subscribe to my newsletter https://mailing.edgecdnx.com/subscription/form
Hopefully soon I'll be able to start building the first MVP publicly, I'm curious if anyone here would like to join the beta programme and host their content on this CDN for free (untortunately can't garantee SLA and 99,99999 uptime at this point).
Regards