[87010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trollage (Re: Akamai server reliability)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Nov 28 14:24:34 2005
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:17:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>, Roy <garlic@garlic.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <C67A9E8C-16F5-416B-86FD-0DCDD7809F55@corp.earthlink.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > I know the idea is to have very cheap boxes in clusters, but I wonder
> > how much they're paying in shipping for replacing the cheap hardware.
> Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS
> strategy.
Yep, that's true. Shipping is cheap, it's customs that's expensive and
time-consuming, and Akamai tends to avoid the kind of places where you
have to deal with a lot of customs.
-Bill
