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Keep in mind that the network names you see in a traceroute tell you little to nothing about
quality. There are ways to measure quality, but brand name isn't one of them.
For example, there are about 80,000 servers located in two Houston data centers - The Planet
and Level3. Those two data centers are a few hundred feet apart. If Cogent has a 10 Gb line
between those two buildings and Sprint routes through Dallas, which backbone do you think
is a better choice for connecting between networks in those two buildings?
In fact, unless you're streaming video over udp, what an adult site needs is bulk bandwidth,
to move big files quickly. "Quality" bandwidth with low jitter and latency is for voip, which
sips bandwidth at a slow rate which must be steady. That's not what you want for serving
video files, which need to get there as fast as possible. What a porn site needs is bandwidth
which isn't oversold, mostly.
We have servers in four data centers right now. I buy from someone who has plenty of "cheap" bandwidth to spare way before I buy from someone running tight on premium
bandwidth. Also what I want is someone with several upstream connections within two
hops, so that my traffic can be routed over the best network for that particular connection.
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