- From: J Ross Nicoll <jrn@jrn.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:07:40 +0100
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- CC: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, M Stefan <mstefanro@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 15/07/2013 17:35, Henry Story wrote: >>> Computational cost is no longer a problem. Google and Facebook provide >>> it with billions of connections a day. >> That's like saying "transportation is non-issue, because Bill Gates >> have a private jet." >> >> Not everybody has Google and FaceBook's globally distributed resources, >> nor their laser-like focus on delivering web-content. > For those who don't have billions of hits a day, they have even less > of an issue, since they have more spare cycles. Computer power has massively > increased since 1998. > I think the point is that for someone with a $9/month hosting plan for their Wordpress blog, they only get a tiny slice of the resources on an already overstretched system they're probably sharing with a dozen or more other people. People aren't necessarily paying for the same proportion of computing power, instead we're seeing hosting become cheaper. Ross
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