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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by jedberg on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:06PM (#18954881)
YouTube does, and a bunch of other sites do it by using Akamai, CloudFlare, Fastly, etc.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by pbhjpbhj on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:28PM (#18955030)
So Akamai, CloudFlare et al. will locate servers in a large ISPs data centre. TIL, I just assumed once a resource had been cached then they'd effectively have that collocation (logically); I'm surprised if avoiding the cost of the first hit really saves anything for static content.

Obviously anyone streaming video, it's different.

I wonder if BBC iPlayer (major streaming service in UK) collocate with ISPs.

Will those servers have a local (to the ISP) IP, or do the Akamai IPs get physically routed to the AS?

Fascinating stuff.

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