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It will be a lot easier to incent customer to distribute, as a colocation provider, if we don't have to pay per Mbps that is imbalanced--and instead we have a direct cost associated with having to do best-exit.. I think pretty much anyone can understand that. > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > That's just how the internet plays, there are probably more sights > > phisically in the silicon valley then anywhere else on the west coast. It's > > where the busniness's are, and since they want to have their machines as > > close to them as possible, they put them here. > > There's some interesting logic. Don't get me wrong, I understand it (from > the customer's point of view). However, I think that it would be a good > idea for web farms to start to make it worth the customer's while to > distribute their servers. It may not be much of a network cost savings from > the web farm's point of view, but it does address some of the traffic > asymmetry issues, on top of improving performance to the end user. > > > > > On the other hand, the customers who view the sites are spread out > > all over the country (and world). Therefore replication is a good thing > > for these businesses. With your servers located all around the country > > (close to private or public peering points) you will get better performance. > > Agreed. > > > > > Of course if there are no public or private peering points located near > > the site, the value would be close to nil, since distribution needs local > > inbound traffic to be worthwhile. > > Well, in the world of private interconnects there are private interconnect > points all over the place. Also, you can always place your colocation > facilities near the public interconnect points. > > > Steven O. Noble -- Sr. Backbone Engineer, Exodus Communications (EXDS) > > Alec > > -- > +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+ > |Alec H. Peterson - [email protected] | Lead Network Architect | > |http://www.hilander.com | Erols Internet - an RCN Company | > +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+ >
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