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Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
- ojbyrne 18y agoBookmarked not only because its a nice article but because it has tons of interesting looking links.
- patrickg-zill 18y agoActually the one thing that DOES reduce latency is never mentioned - the network you are connecting to. Smaller players like Internap charge you more, in return they deliver the lowest-latency bandwidth possible. They do this by contiuously tuning their BGP (routing) setups and make sure to buy direct routes to most big suppliers, like Level3, ATT, NTT (Japan), Cogent, TeliaSonera etc. etc. Thus the mix you get, is a tuned mix of 5 to 7 other suppliers.
- lsc 18y agoThe difference you are speaking of is a small number of millaseconds. Maybe the difference between 50 and 80ms. this might make a difference if you are doing something like trading stocks... but for most webapps, your database is way slower than that. 20ms lag in loading a http page is not going to be noticed by anyone.
- rw 18y agoSpellcheck next time.