You've been Akamized!
Sonic.net has partnered with Akamai
Technologies to deliver content from the most popular websites on a
"zero hop" basis. Akamai has colocated five new servers here in Sonic.net's
Santa Rosa data center which are dedicated to delivering content to our
customers. Used by major sites including Yahoo! and CNN, Akamai's FreeFlow
technology enhances Web performance by accelerating the delivery of robust,
secure content with animation, graphics, streaming media and
interactivity.
Akamai's colocated servers serve heavy content including images and
animations directly to Sonic.net customers. This means that the HTML code
portion of the web page comes directly from the website you're visiting, but
special directives in the HTML cause the images to be served locally here at
Sonic.net. The images and other heavy content on the website will often be
more than 80% of the total overhead, so serving this content locally is a
big win.
The five Akamai machines split the workload of caching and serving up these
files. Each system is built out with a full gigabyte of RAM for top
performance, and caches all requests to save bandwidth and further reduce
the time required to serve the page. This results not only in peak
performance, but also in bandwidth savings on our upstream connections.
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Akamai servers deployed in Sonic.net's
Santa Rosa data center
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