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Re:The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching ... by adnam on Thursday March 25, 2010 @03:57PM (#1219329)
One of those "holier than thou" topics, isn't it?
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Re:The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching ... by ableal on Thursday March 25, 2010 @04:26PM (#1219400)
Or self-interest. If I were a beancounter, and they told me that they didn't bother serving new ads with old content, because it was too much hassle to map the URLs, I'd be asking for cost/benefit figures ...
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Re:The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching ... by boredguy8 on Thursday March 25, 2010 @04:16PM (#1219377)
One of those, "I want people to find my website usable" things.
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