CDN costs: https://wiki.exphosted.com/doku.php/dr_infrastructure

• Dev

Make application use versioned static assets incl. js,css,videos, images and static pages. (except streaming). Decide on Ruby Gem. Make endpoints configurables.

• Install and configure AWS client
• DNS additions
• Deploy Script

Modify deploy script to respect versioning and push to S3.

• Recurring maintenance task

Delete old versions.

• Dev

Copy uploaded assets over to S3 directory and UX changes.

• Use the new endpoints.

• Streaming / Conversion servers to be setup.

Config: 4core, 2G RAM, faster IOPS. Estimated Cost: 152.21$ (Opsource).

Will originally function as dedicated streaming servers using distributed FS.

• Dev

Make application use external endpoints for video conversion. Message broker?. Discussion needed.

• AWS

Elastic transcoder expensive.

• Dedicated Server

IOPS, different data center.

• Dev

Look into using open office TCP sockets to offload this to a dedicated conversion server.