An Open Letter To The Linux Enthusiasts. 17398

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:54:11 -0700, Jim Richardson

Your logic escapes me. MS's "email system" services 10's of thousands of users and is run on exchange. This makes it cost justifiable to do it inhouse, not counting the security and confidentiality issues of outsourcing.

Not really. DNS doesn't require much resources at all. It doesn't matter if you're serving 1 or 10,000 sites, your DNS costs are going to be roughly the same. The cost is in the distributed infrastructure. That cost will be there if you are handling 1 domain or a million.

Not everyone that chooses co-location does so because they can't afford to do it themselves. They often do it because it's simply cheaper, and whether you can afford it or not, you never want to spend more than you have to on something.

Or Neither. Access to the kernel is a good reason for a service like Akamai to choose Linux (or some other open source kernel) because you can customize it to your needs. Another potential reason would be having Linux experts on staff already. There are a lot of potential reasons why any company chooses the platform they run on.

Akamai isn't just running BIND at a dozen different facilities, they developed a custom DNS solution.

You really need to reevaluate your logic.