ISP-to-ISP fast file transfer?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/566262
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05-09-2019 - |
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Jeff Atwood talked about doing an ISP-to-ISP file transfer:
What is this? I tried Googling for it, but couldn't find anything. We have a need to transfer large amounts of data between two data centers, and this sounds interesting.
Solution
He just meant he was transferring data between 2 servers behind large internet connections (OC-1, etc). Particularly between 2 datacenters which usually have internet connections in the measured in gbits.
I don't think he meant he was using some sort of special connection made. Just using the large bandwidth ports provided with the server to transfer the data.
OTHER TIPS
You should look into using a UDT/UDP based delivery solution to shift the data between a couple of locations..
See also his recent blog post on The Economics of Bandwidth.
It basically means using the main internet backbones, rather than going through the standard channels.
FTP can be used to directly transfer data from one server to another, if the servers allow it. It is called proxy FTP or third-party FTP.
FXP might be what you are thinking. The idea is your FTP client tells "FTP Server A" to go fetch a file from "FTP Server B". Great idea in theory, but it is pretty insecure and thus you never find an ISP with FXP enabled.
