Owen DeLong wrote:
Actually, if the content provider simply honors MEDs, that should cover most of the issue. Then, the long haul is done across the content providers' backbone anyway.
Then you get into address aggregation issues that have already been discussed before.
The way I see it, an intelligent content distribution scheme addresses the vast majority of these concerns.
So, a question to the large web farms. Why is it that the largest web sites still seem to be hosted out of a single data center?
Where do you get your data? It seems to me that the bulk of the largest web sites with which I am familiar are located in at least two datacenters.
Alec
Owen Senior Network Engineer Exodus
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