CONTENT SERVER OF A SERVICE PROVIDER'S CDN

摘要

The content server comprises means for communicating with the different entities of the CDN, means for serving content to the CDN end users and further, comprises a DNS module for participating in DNS resolution of end user requests. For some embodiments, the content server further comprises means for behaving as an origin server and for implementing different content server capabilities, and a FLV streamer module for serving live flash content. The content server preferably uses the meta-data of the bucket and of the files in the bucket as a guidance to serve content to a requesting end user.