Valdis, You agree that the CDN content is temporary, no? That is the definition of processes used by an ISP providing pure transport services.
-mel via cell > On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:36 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:15:36 -0000, Mel Beckman said: > >> Not really. The customer provides the content on its own servers. The CDN >> simply redistributes the content via temporary caching. It’s not a web >> hosting >> provider. The CDN _customer_ hosts the content. > > That's an... interesting.. interpretation. Most people would see it as the > CDN > doing the hosting, and the customer *providing* the content to be hosted. > > Do you also believe that your outbox is hosting the e-mail I'm replying to, > and > all the MTAs that got involved are just temporary caching? Or did you provide > a copy of the mail, and request that the MTAs distribute it? > > (Also, if the CDN isn't a web hosting provider, why is it able to serve up > data > on an http connection? Hint - at one time, almost the entire web was static > content, and even today a lot of it is file data not javascript and css. ;)
