On 08/25/98 03:05:40 PM steve wrote:

On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 03:50:37PM -0400, Alec H. Peterson wrote:

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Owen DeLong wrote:

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Where do you get your data? It seems to me that the bulk of the

largest web

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sites with which I am familiar are located in at least two datacenters.

Most of the busy sites I frequent are hosted on the west coast (not just Exodus-hosted sites, but sites in general).

That's just how the internet plays, there are probably more sights phisically in the silicon valley then anywhere else on the west coast. It's where the busniness's are, and since they want to have their machines as close to them as possible, they put them here.

in my opinion, if hosting is done correctly, and managed with the right tools, the hosting provider should be able to dictate where the servers are placed (which city or data center) to balance load in the network (thus balancing some of the load offered to the external peers). while i was at genuity, the distribution of servers was very skewed. most customers were either in the bay area or phoenix, and thus wanted their servers placed there. engineering wanted to decide where servers were placed but sales always said "no no, the customer wants the server in city X" thus we had terrible traffic distribution and serverely overloaded routers and circuits between phoenix, san jose, and mae-west. -brett