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Serving static content from Apache or lighttpd is trivial. Putting multiple boxes hosting that httpd in various geolocations, setting up DNS and BGP to route u
by rmaccloy 18y ago
Serving static content from Apache or lighttpd is trivial.
Putting multiple boxes hosting that httpd in various geolocations, setting up DNS and BGP to route users optimally, designing failover routes and keeping N nodes in sync is the hard part.
- Tichy 18y agoTrue, but when does one reach a size (user base) at which stuff like that becomes critical?
- emmett 18y agoThe same size one should start using any CDN - as soon as you start caring about page load speed.
- Tichy 18y agoOK, I forgot about that problem (I assume it is the limitations of browsers to two connections per server at a time).
- wmf 18y agoYou can work around that with multiple hostnames, but lower latency is still better.
- tlrobinson 18y agoAnd latency. And bandwidth.