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This sounds suspiciously like rubbish to me, at least in the general case. There are too many videos that need distributing in a short time for this to be how t
by rkangel 11y ago
This sounds suspiciously like rubbish to me, at least in the general case. There are too many videos that need distributing in a short time for this to be how the problem is generally solved. Think of a recently uploaded YouTube video, or the coverage of a sports event that's now available on your Catch Up TV provider (iPlayer, NFL Now, etc.).
As a way of seeding the contents of a new CDN node when it's built, I can believe this. As a way of continuously synchronising an existing node, I have more trouble believing it.
- 7952 11y agoYes I agree with the sceptisim. Although if you were trying to reduce access time for rarely accessed data and had sufficient volume it could be worth doing.
- afsdfsadf 11y agoThen why does Amazon S3 offer a "ship us your disk" service? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/