On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Ben Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:56:19AM +1300, Tim Hoffman wrote:
These days you can pick up a surprisingly large amount of content / dump a fair amount of your international load into Sydney.
Mostly because a lot of the content is over there, and not here. Cachefly, Google, Yahoo, Akamai etc. The more we focus on improving Australia connectivity the less chances we have of getting CDN's to come here more directly. It's like how OS/2 provided Windows support, and lost out on native applications.
Amazon in Sydney is also a big game changer. 1. It is close enough to NZ that latency and bandwidth is pretty good 2. It has decent pricing ( even the list pricing beats most competitors for small to medium requirements ) 3. It is fully featured enough for a large percentage of uses. I was at an Amazon course in Auckland last week and there were people from 2 of the top10 NZ websites (me and another) and one of the larger IT services companies. There is/was another course in Wellington this month too... We discussed this here at length a few months ago. One advantage with the cables is that you can serve Australia from New Zealand but there are still significant bugs in NZ's national capacity and connectivity (mostly due to peering politics and the chicken and egg or low capacity since it is not needed). -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.