Globule (CDN)

Globule is an open-source collaborative content delivery network developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. It is implemented as a third-party module for the Apache HTTP Server that allows any given server to replicate its documents to other Globule servers. This can improve the site's performance, maintain the site available to its clients even if some servers are down, and to a certain extent help to resist to flash crowds and the Slashdot effect.

Globule takes care of maintaining consistency between the replicas, monitoring the servers, and automatically redirecting clients to one of the available replicas. Globule also supports the replication of PHP documents accessing MySQL databases. It runs on Unix and Windows systems.

ee also

* Codeen
* Coral Content Distribution Network
* Dotslash

External links

* [http://www.globule.org/ Globule]
* [http://www.globule.org/publi/GCCDN_commag2006.html A paper describing Globule's architecture as a collaborative content delivery network]