There are also considerations with the throughput capability of the hardware too. 500T in a couple RU is nice and all, but if the box can only push ~15Gbps because of bottlenecks in hardware, or the kernel isn't tuned, it's might be a lot less useful depending on the content, as Jared points out. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:34:41PM -0500, Aaron Gould wrote:
My Netflix servers are half a petabyte of cached movies and they are about 18 inches tall .... not sure what you mean.
Serving different file types requires different things. If you are serving the same episodes from storage it's much different than live content, or serving dynamic updates based on entitlement levels, etc.
Not all CDNs are like Netflix, for better or worse.
- Jared
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