[188201] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AW: Cogent - Google - HE Fun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Mar 11 09:22:29 2016
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:22:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Dave Bell <me@geordish.org>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Dave Bell wrote:
> I don't get this. Google are basically a hosting provider. If I set up
> my own website, I would expect to have to pay transit for it. If I ran a
> hosting business I would expect to pay transit. Why are google
> different?
If you had presence all across the world and were providing a sizable
chunk of the world total traffic, you would probably reason differently.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
