On 10/2/08, Jean-François Mezei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip>
Question: > > Is it possible to setup an akamai feed in hours once you know your > website is to be swamped ? > > Obviously, the system managers there might not have been warned in > advance that the politicians would place a huge load on their servers. > But once they realised it, is it conceivable that they quickly setup an > akamai feed ? Or is that something which takes weeks to setup ? > > I'm not sure about Akamai, but I believe Amazon is about to roll out CDN services as well (and I would assume they're as flexible as their other "cloud" offerings). As always, hindsight is 20/20. http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/aws-content-delivery-service -brandon
