--- title: Starting my Content Delivery Network | daily.dev description: A hobbyist is building their own Content Delivery Network using their AS Number, experimenting with geo-DNS and BGP anycast routing to direct users to the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/starting-my-content-delivery-network-whkusbrdn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Starting my Content Delivery Network | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist is building their own Content Delivery Network using their AS Number, experimenting with geo-DNS and BGP anycast routing to direct users to the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/starting-my-content-delivery-network-whkusbrdn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/whKUSbrDn.png og:image:alt: Starting my Content Delivery Network og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Starting my Content Delivery Network **[apalrd's adventures](https://daily.dev/sources/apalrd)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist is building their own Content Delivery Network using their AS Number, experimenting with geo-DNS and BGP anycast routing to direct users to the nearest node. The CDN isn't serving real content yet, but includes a visualizer showing how traffic is routed. The DNS server and my-ip page were built without AI tools, while the visualization used Claude AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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