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`http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt` Wonder what kind of uptime this service has and what sort of fo
by thakoppno 4y ago
`http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt`
Wonder what kind of uptime this service has and what sort of footprint is needed?
- mike_d 4y agoIt is hosted on the Azure CDN, which is partially Azure datacenters and backed up by Akamai. msftncsi.com is completely on Akamai. Here is a list of Azure operated locations: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/microsoft-pop-abbreviations https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/microsoft-pop-ab...
- thakoppno 4y agothank you - any guess on the requests/second? and what about the origin behind the cdn? seems like that it’s still rather critical and would have migrated multiple physical hosts over the past 30 years. This sort of thing is fascinating and I do something similar at a much smaller scale at day job, keeping a simple service running that enables the rest of the stack to survive.
- mike_d 4y agoNo clue on QPS, but it can't be terribly high. It is a single request, compared to the 200+ requests served when someone loads something like CNN.com. I doubt there is any origin at all. Since the response is so small and never changes it is likely hard coded into the config. Maybe it is a file on a shared object storage.