People are talking about Akamai but there are plenty of other CDN providers ( www.cdnlist.com ) out there that don't have a presence in New Zealand. Many have the nearest pop in Singapore, Hong Kong or perhaps Sydney but in most cases performance to them will be bad due (often worse than to California) due to limited International bandwidth with NZ ISPs Perhaps some of the NZ ISPs could, instead of spending $$$ on building proxy-caches perhaps get together and encourage/subsidises some of these providers into getting a pop in New Zealand on a well-peered network. For example (thanks to Mauricio Freitas for pointer) google will put boxes into some places: http://blogs.broughturner.com/2009/04/googles-peering-and-caching-strategy.h... and I would hope that others would do the same if approached. I be especially keen to see an Amazon cloudfront, SimpleCDN and perhaps a few others but speaking as somebody who as lots of bytes to deliver to New Zealanders I'd just about settle for anybody ( that didn't charge $akamai$ pricing). I'd hope it would be too hard for the CDN people and some NZ ISPs to work together to identify which providers are sending worthwhile amounts of traffic and devise some arrangement. An example here or poor performance, I just loaded this page from work and average download times for 64k images from most providers was over a second (although I can guess which ones have Aus or SE-Asian servers). http://www.cloudclimate.com/cdn-speed-test/ -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.