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The whole comparison is flawed/irrelevant anyway. Their point is valid irrespective of the airplane comparison in that having CDN servers closer indeed mean fas
by lloeki 14y ago
The whole comparison is flawed/irrelevant anyway. Their point is valid irrespective of the airplane comparison in that having CDN servers closer indeed mean faster downloads, but I could have a perfect 100Mbps connection to the building across the street and try to download a 1TB file, it would still be insanely faster to travel to the other side of the road and lug the hard disk back.
- dandelany 14y agoOf course it's relevant... Any time you're considering moving a large chunk of data to a remote datacenter, it makes sense to do the math and determine whether it's faster/more cost-effective to move the data there digitally or physically. Why do you think AWS allows you to ship them your portable storage? http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/