[Tfug] Web server names

[Zack Williams]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, it is roughly the WWW equivalent of a 3DNS service?

It's not load balancing, per se. CDN's are more about putting caching
servers that contain data closer to clients, for reduced latency and
bandwidth costs across the internet as a whole.

One example of this is Netflix - in a modernized version of sales
pitches like "Ask your cable provider for the Extreme Knitting
Channel!", they're trying to get people to pressure their ISP's to
install a CDN box:

https://signup.netflix.com/superhd

The actual specs of the box are here (it's basically as many HDD's
will physically fit into a 4U case):

https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect

The entire point of this is to reduce NetFlix's bandwidth bills, by
copying video to their CDN box at each ISP's local storage once, then
serving it out a bunch of times over the ISP's "last mile"
connections.

- Zack