CDN001: Media Website Distribution System

Project Summary: We need to develop a packaged web server solution for serving streaming media websites. This solution should be able to grab copies of the websites and media from a centralized server and distribute it to multiple web servers capable of load balancing, on the fly redirection for traffic load / locations and provide a central monitoring and control dashboard. Details: We have a few hundred websites which include streaming media in flash, h264, wmv, and mobile formats. These sites are built using the ElevatedX Content Management System. We want to create our own Content Distribution Network solution on a smaller scale than existing CDN offerings. We're interested in a packaged solution we can easily deploy to servers with minimal configuration. These pre-packaged "cache servers" should be configured via a centralized dashboard type app. (requirements listed below). Solutions which make use of high performance, robust architecture such as Varnish / Nginx or lighttpd / Apache web servers capable of handling the streaming media will be preferred. Lastly, the system will need to be able to manage and update a DNS server instance which uses the cPanel remote connection API for DNS servers. Component 1: Content Distribution Server Packaged web server solution which can be easily deployed to multiple servers. Requirements: 1. Install with minimal work, dependencies, etc 2. Be able to handle high traffic loads 3. Be able to handle small DOS attacks (nginx is a very good solution for this) 4. Support streaming media in the formats listed above 5. Be configured and managed from a central management application 6. Load changes from Master server on a daily basis or on demand by admin from management app Component 2: Management App 1. Should connect to all the content distribution servers 2. Provide ability to define the website(s) (path) on the master server each CDS will be serving 3. Provide domain names to Content Distribution Server configuration for sites they will be hosting 4. Provide feedback from CD Servers on current and historic traffic loads (bandwidth, CPU, DIsc I/O) 5. Should support an auto load setting which will determine how many CD Servers each site will be hosted on. (More traffic load means more redundancy, less traffic load means less redundancy). 6. Should support ability for admins to manually set redundancy level 7. System should track network connection speeds for each CD Server and the clients connecting to it with ping tests in the background to determine if there is a server better suited for a site's traffic. If so, the admin should be alerted and given the option to load the website in question on that server or servers. 8. Provide traffic analysis function of current and historic traffic locations and recommend which CD Servers are best for which sites. 9. System should update DNS servers with CD Server IPs to accomplish load balancing and assignments. The DNS server is cPanel based and uses their "remote server" connection API. We want clean, attractive UI design of the application. Option: DNS Cache Server If you are capable of building an intelligent DNS cache capable of steering clients to specific DNS entries for CD Servers based on connection speed, location, etc including the ability to block users based on IP or location please provide us with some details and the added cost / length of time to develop this into the system. All work will be paid on a milestone basis. Please include a milestone and payment schedule with your bid.