RE: Web? -- WEB400

Akami technology http://www.akami.com (means cool in Hawaii)

They have 4000 servers spread out world wide, then they cache the image 
(per your request) and serve it from the closest server based on where the 
end user is located.  Example - person is on AOL, image is served within 
AOL.  Images serve @ lightning speed, and the only time your server is hit 
is when the image changes... VERY worth while to offload the images to 
another server.

-Andrew

Andrew Borts / Information Systems Project Leader
Seta Corporation
6400 East Rogers Circle
Boca Raton, FL 33499

E-mail: Andrewb@setacorporation.com
Corporate web site http://www.setacorporation.com
E-Commerce web site http://www.palmbeachjewelry.com
Voice: 561-994-2660 Ext. 2211 / Fax: 561-997-0774


-----Original Message-----
From:   MEovino@ESTES-EXPRESS.COM [SMTP:MEovino@ESTES-EXPRESS.COM]
Sent:   Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:23 PM
To:     WEB400@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: Web?








> Well - we're using CGI/NetData and it looks JUST fine, we're on a kick
butt
> 270, and we're using akami to speed up graphics load times, this way the
> 400 ONLY serves HTML content.

What is akamai doing for you?  Are they hosting the graphics, and you just
reference them in your HTML?

> I'm considering JSP's because it keeps the browser doing native things
with
> the server, and the end person ONLY see's simple Java based stuff, but
> that's kinda what NetData is doing for us...

Yeah, I thought about the same thing, what with all the hype about
WebSphere.  But I didn't see a big advantage over using Net.Data.  Then we
talked to one of IBM's marketing guys, and he actually counseled us AGAINST
using WebSphere, because it was too much for our 170 to handle (I'm
guessing our new box would probably do just fine with it).

Mike Eovino
E-commerce and Customer Development Manager
Estes Express Lines
http://www.estes-express.com

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