Mark, You’ll find that Akamai’s algorithms will retrieve the content from the origin and keep it at varying stages of “warm” in their caches based on demand.
I’d be pretty unimpressed if I was a US / EU journo trying to get Australian news from a webpage 500+ms RT away. - Tim > On 16 Jun 2017, at 4:25 pm, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16 June 2017 at 16:10, Scott Howard <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I think an interesting example is www.theage.com.au. You would expect >>> the main site to be hosted somewhere inside Australia, yet it is being >>> hosted by Akamai somewhere in Europe. >> >> >> Want to think about that comment a little more? >> > > Not really, didn't think much about it before. > > Perhaps it it is surprising that Akamai are hosting copies of content > a long way away from where it is going to be popularly read. There > can't be that many readers of The Age in Europe. > > I don't know anything about Akamai's service optons, and whether > customers can choose where their content is held or provide an > indication of where the content is most likely consumed. > > If not, it might indicate Akamai's replication strategy could be copy > everything everywhere or perhaps at least one copy in each continent. > Cheap enough to do in terms of storage and network bandwidth, just a > bit of a surprise it isn't more optimal. > >> Where do you think urlscan.io is hosted? How does Akamai work? >> >> Scott > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
