akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Fri Feb 14 17:01:42 UTC 2020

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 1:47 AM tim at pelican.org <tim at pelican.org> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 14 February, 2020 09:17, "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> said:
>
> > After all - it's not like *they* are going to feel the pain of a single 106G
> > upload,
> > it's somebody else who feels the pain of 5 million downloads of a 106G image
> > refresh.
> >
> > Economists call this sort of thing an "externality".
>
> I must admit, I'm blissfully unaware of CDN commercials, but I'd have expected that if I give a CDN my binary 100G binary blob and six people download it, I'd be billed a different amount to if six million people download it - and similarly if that blob is 1G vs 100G.
>
> I guess I'm asking if there's an underlying problem with the model here, or if it's just the details of the numbers that are "wrong" in encouraging / discouraging certain behaviours.
>
> Regards,
> Tim.

I just wish "they" would remember that their ultimate customers don't
usually have 10G pipes - they have 6M and 10M pipes that may take
hours, if not days, to download one of these mega blobs.

-- 
Jeff Shultz

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