Opinions wanted on caching your porn sites - GoFuckYourself.com

HowlingWulf · 12-18-2001, 01:52 PM

Ok this may be out in left field, but I want to throw it out there anyway. I work for a Content Delivery Network (CDN) company and was thinking of applying this to adult sites. Basically, as a customer we mirror your content at our locations around the world so pages load faster and cheaper. A surfer near Chicago would get the content from our Chicago location instead of the origin server, and a surfer in Germany would get the content from our Germany location, etc. It would obviously load faster and use less bandwidth. This way the customer wouldn't have to buy/install/maintain more hardware and bandwidth to maintain growth, they would just expand into ours and pay less doing so. This includes authentication so only members could download member content. Does this make any sense? Any comments?

Wildman · 12-18-2001, 05:17 PM

I think the idea is good. You would need to aim it towards Paysites.

I guess it all comes down to the pricing.

Wildman.

------------------
-----------------------
A New way to Wealth - http://www.avscash.com

m0rph3us · 12-18-2001, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by HowlingWulf:
It would obviously load faster and use less bandwidth.

Load faster - yes
Less bandwidth - uh no... isn't 1GB from Chicago the same as 1GB from germany?

Nysus · 12-18-2001, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by m0rph3us:
Load faster - yes
Less bandwidth - uh no... isn't 1GB from Chicago the same as 1GB from germany?

That was my thought too.

Cheers

kmanrox · 12-18-2001, 05:45 PM

good point morph

------------------
K-MaN
icq 1337988

NicheBucks 50/50
RawPussy TGP
Secret Galleries TGP
Trade Traffic For All Sites at BuiltonPorn

HowlingWulf · 12-18-2001, 07:40 PM

The closer you are to the server the less hops there are. More hops = more bandwidth.

heymatty · 12-18-2001, 07:49 PM

These sort of things were very easy to sell to dotcomers a few years ago, now not so much I guess.

What you don't mention is cost, I doubt that there are many adult webmasters that would see any return on investment unless the cost is pretty low.

Backov · 12-18-2001, 07:51 PM

This sounds an awful lot like Akamai, which I know some people in the adult segment are using.. (As well as big software companies, to automatically mirror software distros - Apple does this with Quicktime)..

Cheers,
Backov

------------------
AVSBlitz - Build AVS Sites Faster and Better

Brad Mitchell · 12-18-2001, 08:49 PM

Nevermind.

[This message has been edited by SinEmpire (edited 12-18-2001).]

Snake Doctor · 12-18-2001, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by HowlingWulf:
The closer you are to the server the less hops there are. More hops = more bandwidth.

more hops=more time, but not more bandwidth. If if push 100MB off of my server, that's 100MB off of my server, is makes no difference where the packets get routed to after it leaves.

------------------
Did somebody say Free Content?

12-18-2001, 01:52 PM	#1
HowlingWulf Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,662	Opinions wanted on caching your porn sites Ok this may be out in left field, but I want to throw it out there anyway. I work for a Content Delivery Network (CDN) company and was thinking of applying this to adult sites. Basically, as a customer we mirror your content at our locations around the world so pages load faster and cheaper. A surfer near Chicago would get the content from our Chicago location instead of the origin server, and a surfer in Germany would get the content from our Germany location, etc. It would obviously load faster and use less bandwidth. This way the customer wouldn't have to buy/install/maintain more hardware and bandwidth to maintain growth, they would just expand into ours and pay less doing so. This includes authentication so only members could download member content. Does this make any sense? Any comments?

12-18-2001, 05:17 PM	#2
Wildman Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 326	I think the idea is good. You would need to aim it towards Paysites. I guess it all comes down to the pricing. Wildman. ------------------ ----------------------- A New way to Wealth - http://www.avscash.com

12-18-2001, 05:45 PM	#5
kmanrox aka K-Man Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: The Gutter Posts: 29,292	good point morph ------------------ K-MaN icq 1337988 NicheBucks 50/50 RawPussy TGP Secret Galleries TGP Trade Traffic For All Sites at BuiltonPorn

12-18-2001, 07:40 PM	#6
HowlingWulf Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,662	The closer you are to the server the less hops there are. More hops = more bandwidth.

12-18-2001, 07:49 PM	#7
heymatty Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Scottsdale :) Posts: 2,188	These sort of things were very easy to sell to dotcomers a few years ago, now not so much I guess. What you don't mention is cost, I doubt that there are many adult webmasters that would see any return on investment unless the cost is pretty low.

12-18-2001, 07:51 PM	#8
Backov Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Cat Detector Van Posts: 1,600	This sounds an awful lot like Akamai, which I know some people in the adult segment are using.. (As well as big software companies, to automatically mirror software distros - Apple does this with Quicktime).. Cheers, Backov ------------------ AVSBlitz - Build AVS Sites Faster and Better

12-18-2001, 08:49 PM	#9
Brad Mitchell Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Southfield, MI Posts: 9,812	Nevermind. [This message has been edited by SinEmpire (edited 12-18-2001).]