Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

[Chuck Church <chuckchurch () gmail com>]

You mean not everyone still looks up the classifications on
mulletsgalore.com?

Chuck

On Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:54 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 2020 10:40:36 +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko said:
> > What about introducing some cache offloading, like CDN doing? (Google,
> > Facebook, Netflix, Akamai, etc)
> > I think it can be rolled pretty quickly, with minimum labor efforts, at
> > least for heavy content.
>
> The thing is that if you're an 800 pound gorilla, you probably have enough
> things that would benefit from being cached to make it worthwhile.
>
> I'd expect that the Internet Archive is probably mostly long-tail hits
> with not
> much hot content.  Has anybody modeled how much cache space would it take
> to
> significantly improve the bandwidth situation?