Comments on: The Server Knows http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2005/01/12/the-server-knows/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:03:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2005/01/12/the-server-knows/#comment-1245 Kelson Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:14:18 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2005/01/12/the-server-knows/#comment-1245 Good point. I don't know why I didn't think of it, or why Netcraft didn't mention it---they're certainly in a position to know! Sure, they weren't focusing on the server's software so much as the sites' availability, but they've talked about sites using Akamai before. Good point. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it, or why Netcraft didn’t mention it—they’re certainly in a position to know! Sure, they weren’t focusing on the server’s software so much as the sites’ availability, but they’ve talked about sites using Akamai before.

]]> By: Tor Gisvold http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2005/01/12/the-server-knows/#comment-1244 Tor Gisvold Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:55 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2005/01/12/the-server-knows/#comment-1244 This is not entirely fair - as Apple uses (and owns part of) Akamai to do distributed serving/cacheing of their traffic, and there would probably a a number of inverse proxy caches sitting in front of their webservers. These tend to be transparent to the end user, but will offload at least 95% of the traffic from the webservers themselves. So you're really monitoring the response time of the cache's for any infrastructure of any size. If I was running Apple's sites I would reduce the freshness factor of any material in the cache, and let them take all traffic at such times (i.e. preload the cahce's) The irony of the windows server is till valid though.. This is not entirely fair – as Apple uses (and owns part of) Akamai to do distributed serving/cacheing of their traffic, and there would probably a a number of inverse proxy caches sitting in front of their webservers. These tend to be transparent to the end user, but will offload at least 95% of the traffic from the webservers themselves.

So you’re really monitoring the response time of the cache’s for any infrastructure of any size. If I was running Apple’s sites I would reduce the freshness factor of any material in the cache, and let them take all traffic at such times (i.e. preload the cahce’s)

The irony of the windows server is till valid though..

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