The thing about akamai... I believe they provide effectively an HTTP accelerator service for the MSN servers, which would make sense, as that's one of the main things akamai do.. They run the mother of all caches for customers who want high bandwidth sites, but can't get the pipe into their own data centres. It also gives the customer a level of redundancy, as the akamai caches can handle load balancing etc. It also makes IIS servers more secure, as akamai use proven *ix technologies for the transparent caches.
That is why lots of sites house their graphics etc on akamai.. Gives you big site bandwidth using a 128k DDS circuit into the server if you want. For one of the business idea's I'm looking at I may be using their services, although I'll be paying the extra dollars to have my own cname record for the cache so I don't have links to akamai on my site, as conspiracy theories abound about what they do.. Cheers, Chris Hellyar. Selwyn District Council Phones: X 831 (03)324 5831 (021) 350 603 <This message has not been inspected by the Chief Censors office> -----Original Message----- From: Peter R Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 15:06 To: cantalug Subject: xml developer response to msn blocking policy re this: > > >Oh yeah if you didnt already know M$ has blocked all browsers > >apart from the latest version of IE from accessing www.msn.com > > - and posing as IE dont work either.. but the guys at opera > >made a mod that gets past the block. > if anyone's innarested this article at xml.com summarises the debate that's been happening on the xmldev list since msn did the dirty. http://xml.com/pub/a/2001/10/31/msn.html and, by the by, didn't ibm carl say something about how msn.net has been outsourced to akami(?) who run their server farms on linux? at least that's what i've got in my notes - it was during the linux myths topic on scaling that it came up. more than ironic if true - more like foul play i'd say. cheers peter ###################################################################### The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District Council ######################################################################
