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> ...servers in orbit would lower latency since you wouldn’t have to bounce back to Earth... A CDN would work I think, provided you could power the hard drives.
by unoti 6y ago
> ...servers in orbit would lower latency since you wouldn’t have to bounce back to Earth... A CDN would work I think, provided you could power the hard drives.
But doing it all solid state with RAM + SSD could totally make sense, especially if you cache only the highest access items in space... Something like this could also make sense to do custom silicon/ASICs to keep the power and weight requirements down.