At 08:49 AM 7/27/00 -0700, Mark Allyn wrote:
>I have heard that an outfit called Akamai Technologies in Cambridge,
>Mass is real sharp with mirroring and traveling content technologies.
>It was formed by techies from MIT. Perhaps they might be able to
>offer something.
Akamai and other companies (my employer AT&T offers a similar service)
provide services using a variety of caching equipment (Inktomi is
one of the prominent vendors) to do caching.
The negative aspect of them for JYA is that we charge money,
with prices depending on usage (typically 95th percentile peak rate),
which are appropriate for commercial businesses broadcasting things
or managing the capacity of their web site, but a bit steep for
non-commercial sites run by individuals who've been slashdotted.
Slashdot.org is one of the common sources of trouble -
they have a policy of not caching, because back when they were a
volunteer effort instead of a business, they didn't want to pay lawyers
or get sued occasionally for caching people's stuff.
I do think they ought to reconsider, now that they're commercial
and owned by a company big enough to have real lawyers,
and most people probably would prefer to be cached rather than slashdotted.
Getting your website mentioned in the more conventional press,
like Drudge, is more of a problem, and you're only helped somewhat
by big ISPs using transparent caching at their gateways.
If your site has been unchanged long enough for Google to find it,
you _can_ cheat and publish the address for the Google cache :-)
But that's not much help for fast-breaking news;
it would have been nice if Drudge had provided a cached version
of at least the basic pages.
Thanks!
Bill
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