I'm the author of the blogpost and am inclined to reply.
David, I don't mean any disrespect to OpenDNS. It is an awesome service and I too myself use it when nothing else works. I don't have anything against OpenDNS.
If you for some strange reason want to discredit data from EC2 instances, please see the data from Thai and the Swedish ISP. Both are personal internet connections of people residing in the respective countries from their homes.
Now that you have really discredited me, I have to work harder to get data from someone's home connection is US and UK (apparently you dont recognize data from other locations).
Thanks,
Sajal
Slashdot.org is serving static assets from the hostname a.fsdn.com which is served via Akamai CDN. I count 19 requests to http://a.fsdn.com/* on a single pageload of the homepage. These static files are currently served by a server within my ISPs network rather than some server on the other side of the globe...
Alamai uses DNS routing.
Slashdot Mirror
there has to be more to the story. ive been with softlayer for few years now... and they don't seem the kind who would do this for competitive advantage. Wait until Monday evening before forming an opinion... http://www.sajalkayan.com/simplecdn-goes-down-a-case-for-using-multiple-cdn-providers.html
I'm the author of the blogpost and am inclined to reply. David, I don't mean any disrespect to OpenDNS. It is an awesome service and I too myself use it when nothing else works. I don't have anything against OpenDNS. If you for some strange reason want to discredit data from EC2 instances, please see the data from Thai and the Swedish ISP. Both are personal internet connections of people residing in the respective countries from their homes. Now that you have really discredited me, I have to work harder to get data from someone's home connection is US and UK (apparently you dont recognize data from other locations). Thanks, Sajal
Slashdot.org is serving static assets from the hostname a.fsdn.com which is served via Akamai CDN. I count 19 requests to http://a.fsdn.com/* on a single pageload of the homepage. These static files are currently served by a server within my ISPs network rather than some server on the other side of the globe... Alamai uses DNS routing.