CO Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:57:58 -0600 (CST)
CO From: Chris Owen
CO However, I do think Akamai would be better off getting their issues with
CO their replacement boxes straightened out. I agree that we get value for
CO having the boxes on our network (and so do they lets not forget).
*shrug*
To quote a science fiction story I'm fond of, efficiency depends on
what you want to effish.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Sci-fi injection!
(marking another beer owed)
Gadi.
On Nov 28, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Vinny Abello 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.
Anything else is
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,
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS
strategy.
Especially since Akamai doesn't pay for truck rolls and man hours to get
the replacements done onsite.
--
Mikael Abrahamssonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS
strategy.
Especially since Akamai doesn't pay for truck rolls and man hours to get
the replacements done onsite.
I'm sorry, isn't that exactly what an airbill *is* paying for -- to get
the equipment on site?
The
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Chris Owen wrote:
As far as I can tell the only thing that will get a box replaced is if it
can't be booted/pinged. We've pointed out dead CPU fans before (even on
the incoming replacement boxes) and they've never seemed to care. If it
runs it runs. If it doesn't they
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Deepak Jain wrote:
Never underestimate the amount of airbills that can be paid with KISS
strategy.
Especially since Akamai doesn't pay for truck rolls and man hours to get
the replacements done onsite.
I'm sorry, isn't that exactly what an airbill *is* paying for
Chris Owen wrote:
It isn't just that they are wasting my time. They are also wasting their
own time. It's the overall lack efficiency that bothers me ;-]
Don't worry, it wont take long until google parks their
datacenter-in-a-container outside at the fiber junction and the content
It isn't just that they are wasting my time. They are also wasting their
own time. It's the overall lack efficiency that bothers me ;-]
i suspect you have a datapoint on how they're doing financially.
they ain't stoopid. they'll deal with it when the cost/benefit
gets high enough on their
Deepak Jain wrote:
If that model doesn't work for the ISP in question, they should ask
Akamai to pull their gear.
And hopefully they'll (someday) send servers in my direction - is their
minimum criteria creeping upwards at the same rate as overall Internet
traffic did in the late 90s?
pt
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Bush writes:
It isn't just that they are wasting my time. They are also wasting their
own time. It's the overall lack efficiency that bothers me ;-]
i suspect you have a datapoint on how they're doing financially.
they ain't stoopid. they'll deal with it
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Deepak Jain wrote:
I'm sorry, isn't that exactly what an airbill *is* paying for -- to get the
equipment on site?
They also frequently need boxes power cycled. It got to be so frequent
that we gave them a remote reboot switch for all their gear and told
them how to
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Pete Templin wrote:
And hopefully they'll (someday) send servers in my direction - is their
minimum criteria creeping upwards at the same rate as overall Internet
traffic did in the late 90s?
The impression I got was they originally scattered their machines to
everyone
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