[7001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netscape MAE colocation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Jan 15 10:22:22 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: map@iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:19:07 -0500 (EST)
Cc: stephen@clark.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701150539.NAA04267@marikit.iphil.net> from "Miguel A.L. Paraz" at Jan 15, 97 05:39:23 am
BTW: I did not mean to imply that the machines were directly connected to the
FDDI/ethernet switched fabric. I really wasn't looking at their backs;
I tend to get somewhat distraced by lots of Criscos when at major XPs.
Avi
> Hi,
>
> Stephen Balbach wrote:
>
> > And Netscape has some mighty big SGI's promintently displayed as
> > you walk in.
>
> Netscape's web servers? Interesting, does Netscape now host their
> gigahit-per-day web servers outside the West Coast (in-house or
> at ISI.NET?) I was wondering if Netscape now "redirects" web browsers
> to their "nearest" server? This would be cool if it would set a precedent;
> hopefully they and other high-volume providers would set up mirrors
> *outside* the US so that folks wouldn't spend their bandwidth pulling their
> (uncacheable) pages in.
>
> If Netscape is indeed doing this, do HTTP traffic analysis and the business
> case show that selecting different locations for web servers is
> "worth it"?
>
> Regards,
>
> miguel a.l. paraz <map@iphil.net> | pgp key id: 0x43F0D011
