There are also considerations with the throughput capability of the hardware too.
500T in a couple RU is nice and all, but if the box can only push ~15Gbps because of bottlenecks in hardware, or the kernel isn't tuned, it's might be a lot less useful depending on the content, as Jared points out. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:34:41PM -0500, Aaron Gould wrote: > > My Netflix servers are half a petabyte of cached movies and they are > about 18 inches tall .... not sure what you mean. > > Serving different file types requires different things. If you > are serving the same episodes from storage it's much different than > live content, or serving dynamic updates based on entitlement > levels, etc. > > Not all CDNs are like Netflix, for better or worse. > > - Jared > > -- > Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from ja...@puck.nether.net > clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only > mine. >
