8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
7:48 p.m.
Joe Abley wrote:
That caches improve perceived performance for users is a reasonable reason to the original question, I suppose. I've never heard of anybody using transparent caches without a regular stream of helpdesk driven exception handling, though, so there's a cost to that performance, both to the customer and to the ISP whose helpdesk phone is ringing.
True, and if not carefully configured, transparent cacheing can have interesting side-effects like anonymising posters of Christmas Island material, as I wrote about on http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3559088 I'm also wondering how effective ISP-side transparent caching is in today's "Akamaised" Internet. Has anyone looked at that? -- Juha