CDN Software System Requirements

These are the minimum system requirements for your Edge server.

Operating System

  • Debian 5.0 Lenny 32-bit or 64-bit
  • Ubuntu 8.0.4.3 Server 32-bit or 64-bit
  • CentOS 5.3 32-bit or 64-bit

Disk space

  • Minimum 1GB for installation
  • At least 100GB recommended to cache client files

RAM

  • Minimum 512MB for serving of static Web content, recommended 2GB for improved performance
  • For streaming capabilities, the minimum memory requirement is 1GB.

CPU

  • Minimum Pentium-4 class processor, recommended Core2Duo class and above
  • 64 bit processors are supported

Network

  • A public IP is required to use Aflexi
  • If you have a firewall, you will need to open these ports:
  • Inbound
    • TCP/80 - HTTP delivery
  • Outbound
    • TCP/UDP/53 - DNS lookups
    • TCP port 80 - HTTP to origin and Aflexi
    • TCP port 443 - HTTPS to Aflexi
    • TCP port 8080 - Installation script to Aflexi Web Service
    • TCP port 8140 - Puppet to Aflexi
    • UDP port 25826 - Collectd to Aflexi
    • Outbound proxy servers are currently unsupported