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Old 02-18-2008, 12:27 PM  
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Originally Posted by Spudstr View Post
basicly it caches your static content world wide, geo-dns will send your end user to the closest POP. So in other words your member is in EU somewhere they will get a CDN cluster in EU which has a cached copy of your static images/content.

The closer your content is to your end user the faster it will be delivered. Especially if your going across the Atlantic or the Pacific.
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Anyone can take advantage of it, the only downside is that it will be cached and will stay cached until however long the TTL is set on those objects expires. Its more expensive than traditional hosting but it will deliver faster. most of the world it doesn't matter but people running large operations that can leverage aw ay for it to offload some loads on their main cluster, without spending the $$ to replicate their setup somewhere else its a no brainer.
Well put.
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