[AusNOG] urlscan.io

[Tim Raphael]

Mark,

You’ll find that Akamai’s algorithms will retrieve the content from the origin and keep it at varying stages of “warm” in their caches based on demand.

I’d be pretty unimpressed if I was a US / EU journo trying to get Australian news from a webpage 500+ms RT away.

- Tim


> On 16 Jun 2017, at 4:25 pm, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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