Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Timwi schreef:
It would use less bandwidth, yes, but it would take much longer to serve a page.
Hoi, More relevantly it uses a fraction of the costs.
Which not something an end-user will see. If end-users see it become noticeably slower, they'll complain, full-stop. "It's cheaper for us!" is not a good excuse in the minds of most consumers.
When the nodes that serve user requests are close to the user,
What good is a node that is close to the user if it's dead?
Timwi