[thelist] Spreading sites between different hosts

[Peter Small]

>> (1)
>> Ignoring the different speeds of response between different servers through
>> traffic etc,would there be a time penalty if a page were designed to have
>> ten gifs with each of the gifs located on a different servers (i.e. ten
>> gifs and eleven servers)?
>
>Remember that a web browser can only communicate so many different streams
>at once. I
>see a definite lag on the large commercial sites when the ads (which are
>being served
>by multiple ad servers) are loading. I think Netscape only uses 4-5
>streams. So with
>10 servers to communicate with to build one page, I would think that this
>'dispersed'
>page would be slower than communicating with one single page. Especially
>since the
>client would have the choke point on bandwidth - don't forget broadband is
>not a
>reality for 95% of the world.
>

Anthony,

How is this streaming improved by the ten gifs being on the same server as
the Web page? Wouldn't the same streaming limitations apply - because the
limitations are in the browser on the client side?

Sorry if these are naive questions, but, the technical aspects of Web
communication and file transfer is a big black fog to me.


peter
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