Deploying a content distribution network using resources from cloud service providers

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media including one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes:

• transmitting, from a first computer system to each of a plurality of second computer systems, a respective first command, wherein each first command comprises instructions to initiate one or more virtual machine instances on the respective second computer system, and wherein each virtual machine instance is configured to:
• retrieve data from a third computer system over a communications network,
• cache the retrieved data, and
• transmit the cached data to one or more client computers over the communications network in response to a request for the cached data by the one or more client computers;
• transmitting, from the first computer system to each of the plurality of second computer systems, configuration data, wherein the configuration data comprises indications of one or more parameters associated with at least one of retrieving the data from the third computer system, caching the retrieved data, or transmitting the cached data to the one or more client computers the one or more parameters comprising an indication of a load balancing between two or more virtual machine instances;
• receiving, at the first computer system, logistical data describing an operating cost
• associated with each of the second computer systems and resource data describing an availability of computational resources available to each of the second computer systems;
• determining, at the first computer system based on the logistical data and the resource data, one or more modifications to at least one of the one or more parameters of the configuration data;
• and
• transmitting, from the first computer system to at least one of the second computers, a respective second command, wherein each second command comprises instructions to operate the one or more virtual machine instances on the respective second computer system in accordance with the one or more modifications.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media including one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processes, causes:
• transmitting, from a first computer system to each of a plurality of second computer systems, a respective first command, wherein each first command comprises instructions to initiate one or more virtual machine instances on the respective second computer system, and wherein each virtual machine instance is configured to:
• retrieve data from a third computer system over a communications network,
• cache the retrieved data, and
• transmit the cached data to one or more client computers over the communications network in response to a request for the cached data by the one or more client computers;
• transmitting, from the first computer system to each of the plurality of second computer systems, configuration data, wherein the configuration data comprises indications of one or more parameters associated with at least one of retrieving the data from the third computer system, caching the retrieved data, or transmitting the cached data to the one or more client computers, the one or more parameters comprising an indication of a load balancing between two or more virtual machine instances;
• receiving, at the first computer system, logistical data describing an operating cost
• associated with each of the second computer systems and resource data describing an availability of computational resources available to each of the second computer systems;
• determining, at the first computer system based on the logistical data and the resource data, one or more modifications to at least one of the one or more parameters of the configuration data;
• and
• transmitting, from the first computer system to at least one of the second computers, a respective second command, wherein each second command comprises instructions to operate the one or more virtual machine instances on the respective second computer system in accordance with the one or more modifications.