8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
7:21 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:10:37PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
How widespread is transparent caching today?
[...] Southern Cross arrived some time ago, is evidently not full, and yet people are still forcing customers to use caches.
Why is that?
Is this a trick question? The answer, naturally, is money, more specifically, it is far cheaper (essentially free) to serve something from an ISPs local cache than to request it all over again. This way, the ISP `earns' (saves) money, plus it has the very real potential to be faster when hit from cache (though I doubt that is the primary motivation for using transparent proxying in an ISP environment. -- Cameron Kerr cameron.kerr(a)paradise.net.nz : http://nzgeeks.org/cameron/ Empowered by Perl!