Hello everyone, I currently have a server which stores many terabytes of rather static files, each one having tenths of gigabytes. Right now, these files are only accessed through a local connection, but in some time this is going to change. One option to make the access acceptable is to deploy new servers on the places that will most access these files. The new server would keep a copy of the most accessed ones so that only a LAN connection is needed, instead of wasting bandwidth to external access. I'm considering almost any solution to these new hosts and one of then is just using a cache tool like squid to make the downloads faster, but as I didn't see someone caching files this big, I would like to know which problems I may find if I adopt this kind of solution. The alternatives I've considered so far include using a distributed file system such as Hadoop, deploying a private cloud storage system to communicate between the servers or even using bittorrent to share the files among servers. Any comments on these alternatives too? thank you all, Thiago Moraes - EnC 07 - UFSCar
