Re:Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake...
by nemothekid on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @02:55PM
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>... what do you mean it cannot be cached?
When I mean "cached", it means that the PoP server can serve content without contacting the origin server. (The PoP can't serve content it does not have).
>and it seems Netflix opted to forego the last one to avoid a the bad PR of an error message of "we are over capacity" and instead went with actually let it burn, no?
Anything other than 100% uptime is bad PR for Netflix.
When I mean "cached", it means that the PoP server can serve content without contacting the origin server. (The PoP can't serve content it does not have).
>and it seems Netflix opted to forego the last one to avoid a the bad PR of an error message of "we are over capacity" and instead went with actually let it burn, no?
Anything other than 100% uptime is bad PR for Netflix.