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Exactly what I was thinking reading this. A CDN has no interest throttling things, it will hurt their performance metrics. And if they think your IP is "bad" yo
by t0mas88 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking reading this. A CDN has no interest throttling things, it will hurt their performance metrics. And if they think your IP is "bad" you'll get a straight up error or captcha, not just some packet loss.
But a link between an ISP and a CDP provider being overloaded is quite common. The ISP is trying to get away with the minimal infrastructure investments possible, and good interconnect is expensive.
- nikanj 3y agoTime for a soapbox rant about interconnect prices, which are based on a "How much ya got" pricing instead of "How much it actually costs to hook up".
- eqvinox 3y agoTo be fair this is mostly a problem between ISPs, or with ISPs fleecing their (business) customers. A restrictive peering policy for a CDN is just batshit stupid, and the CDNs know this and will peer with anything that doesn't run away fast enough. You do have to meet the CDNs at some PoP though, and that getting-there part is generally the real issue. Anything last mile is just… ugh.
- bobdvb 3y agoMany ISPs have been lobbying for a tax on "content generators" which they say they would use to pay for infrastructure upgrades (or line the pockets of their shareholders who knows). The EU has a consultation on it, although I think it'll fail to get traction.
- eqvinox 3y ago> The EU has a consultation on it, although I think it'll fail to get traction. Thank god it'll fail to get traction. Many ISPs have been receiving boatloads of government subsidies to build out infrastructure, and they have very little to show for it. There is no reason to believe this would be any different.