We’ve long had content delivery networks (CDN), that help speed up and reduce latency for your web visitors. This works by making sure that the CDN has servers that are physically closer and on a better network connection (fewer hops) compared to where your visitor is based. You maintain multiple copies of the same content spread out around the world, just to ensure you stay close to where your users are. ...
Just a brief blog post as I’m mostly busy working hard on my dissertation (which should be made available here in a few weeks) and applying for jobs. Hopefully the job thing should be signed in a few weeks as well, as there are a few interesting in the pipeline at the moment. Anyway, thought it was time to post something, so here goes. Been following Brightbox for some time. They are a new cloud computing provider (but not a new hosting provider in general), and they give off a good first impression. Yesterday they published their pricing plan for the soon to be non-beta platform. I don’t have any reason for doubting the quality of their service, and I often like to support the “little guys”, but man, cloud computing really have turned servers into a commodity. ...