Larry, That's a great idea. Amazon just added the edge caching, too, (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ ) that supposedly take latency down from ~300ms to ~10ms apparently too. That would definitely be good for our international users.
Ted On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Larry Kluger wrote: > Hi David, > > Rather than spend your time setting up mirrors, just put the > libraries up on Amazon's S3. $.15 / Gigabyte per month. -- That's 15 > cents per month / G. > > Spend your time setting up a tip jar for Simile instead. > I'll put in $10 and I'd bet that'd cover S3 charges for quite a while. > > Regards, > > Larry > > > From: David Karger <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:06:00 PM > Subject: Re: simile.mit.edu down? > > > I am going to investigate some ideas for getting the code mirrored at > multiple sites with automatic failover. It'll take a few days at > least > to find things out. > > Larry Kluger wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > > In my humble opinion, you are *far* better off hosting the libraries > > yourself rather than depending on an .mit.edu server. > > Like, night and day better off. > > > > The Yahoo folks have studied the issues of people's caches being > > primed and the effect is, unfortunately, much less than what would > be > > hoped for. > > The odds of one of your clients having a cached version of the > Simile > > libraries from some other Simile-based page that is not connected to > > your app are tiny. Or smaller. > > > > Be vertically integrated, host it yourself. > > > > Regards, > > > > Larry > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Eric Pugh <[email protected]> > > *To:* [email protected] > > *Sent:* Friday, December 19, 2008 8:52:19 AM > > *Subject:* Re: simile.mit.edu down? > > > > > > Joern, > > > > We are seeing the same thing. I had made the assumption that this > > site would be more reliable then hosting it ourselves, and allow the > > possiblity that folks might already have the javascript cached > > locally, however, maybe we are better off hosting it ourselves :-( > > > > I know Google had an effort to host some big javascript libraries, > is > > there anything like that for the Simile assets? > > > > Eric > > > > > > On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Jörn Clausen wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I think simile.mit.edu is down. The site is not reachable, and > so are > > > sites still using the code hosted there. > > > > > > Is this a planned downtime? Did I miss the EOL announcement?? > > > > > > -- > > > Joern Clausen > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/ > > > http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | > > http://www.opensourceconnections.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - Edward Benson http://people.csail.mit.edu/eob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
