[AusNOG] urlscan.io

[Mark Smith]

On 16 June 2017 at 16:10, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think an interesting example is www.theage.com.au. You would expect
>> the main site to be hosted somewhere inside Australia, yet it is being
>> hosted by Akamai somewhere in Europe.
>
>
> Want to think about that comment a little more?
>

Not really, didn't think much about it before.

Perhaps it it is surprising that Akamai are hosting copies of content
a long way away from where it is going to be popularly read. There
can't be that many readers of The Age in Europe.

I don't know anything about Akamai's service optons, and whether
customers can choose where their content is held or provide an
indication of where the content is most likely consumed.

If not, it might indicate Akamai's replication strategy could be copy
everything everywhere or perhaps at least one copy in each continent.
Cheap enough to do in terms of storage and network bandwidth, just a
bit of a surprise it isn't more optimal.

> Where do you think urlscan.io is hosted?  How does Akamai work?
>
>   Scott