Re: Accelerator Cache

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:25:45AM -0000, Dave J Woolley wrote:
> An acceleraator is a cache that sits close to the
> server, whereas a normal cache is close to the
> client.

no, not necessarily. Akamai, Adero, Sandpiper, and other content delivery
networks are accelerators, and they sit far from the original server/content.

my definition of the diff is that accelerators are accessed by browsers as
origin servers (they listen on port 80), while caches are accessed as proxies
(port 3128, etc.)

cheers,
---m

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