Re: [syndication] RSS vs. HTML Bandwidth and "Scalability"...

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Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> writes:

>  From w3future.com/weblog/:
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>  >In July my RSS file has been downloaded 15741 times. That's 134Mbyte, 55%
>  >percent of my total traffic. This is way to much, if you compare that to the
>  >2617 times my html weblog has been downloaded last month. This looks like a
>  >scalability problem. But I have a monthly traffic limit of 1500MByte, so I
>  >don't worry.

In Reptile... we will introduce node-by-node caching.  So instead of always
fetching the content from *your* website, we will fetch the content from other
Reptile nodes via their Panther Proxy cache...

... should scale pretty well.  I guess this is slightly similar to Swarmcast
which we also want to support.  

Kevin

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