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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the it'll-never-get-out-of-beta dept.

Google has quietly started offering Google Cloud CDN service, a new content-delivery network (CDN) that should appeal to independent developers who want their applications to load quickly.

For its "alpha" release, Google is now accepting applications from people who want to try the new service, which is limited in geographical availability. More locations will be added when the service becomes generally available.

"Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge caches to cache HTTP(S) Load Balanced content close to your users," the product description states. "Caching content at the edges of Google's network provides faster delivery of content to your users while reducing the load on your servers."


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  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:41PM

    by deimtee (3272) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:41PM (#276885) Journal

    Man, I don't know why Unistaters put up with that shit. You actually pay to receive calls and SMS's.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:41AM

    by Marand (1081) on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:41AM (#276909) Journal

    Man, I don't know why Unistaters put up with that shit. You actually pay to receive calls and SMS's.

    There are some exceptions, but most don't do that any more, because carriers finally started making SMS free for most plans. Competition's actually improved the situation there, along with voice call limits, because they've become "freebies" to entice people to use this or that carrier in the hopes of getting the profits off selling people smartphones or getting data overages etc. It also helped that data plans meant that users started circumventing paid SMSes using internet-based messaging systems; the SMS gravy train was doomed so they turned it into a freebie gimmick, same way things like voicemail and caller ID went from being expensive add-ons to status quo for phones.

    That said, they had a really nice racket with SMS for a while, didn't they? Get users to pay to send AND receive data that's free for the carrier because it piggybacks on other essential traffic.

    • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Sunday December 20 2015, @11:53AM

      by deimtee (3272) on Sunday December 20 2015, @11:53AM (#278891) Journal

      That wasn't really my point. If any telco in Oz had ever said "We're going to charge you for shit people send to you" they'd have been strung up by the balls five minutes later.
      I want to send a message to some bastard = fine I pay for it.
      Some other bastard sends me a message = fine he pays for it.
      You want me to pay to receive messages = it'll be a cold fucking day in hell.

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      • (Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday December 20 2015, @12:21PM

        by Marand (1081) on Sunday December 20 2015, @12:21PM (#278895) Journal

        Hey, I agree completely, just thought it was worth pointing out that it's not really the case any more for most people. I always thought it was bloody stupid and refused to participate until the game changed.

        I think maybe they got away with it as long as they did in part because of other businesses footing the bill -- in their quest to keep employees available 24/7 as unpaid labour -- and in part because the telcos deliberately avoided stepping on each other's toes by offering better options. Everyone just got handed a "deal with it or gtfo" ultimatum with no alternatives. Sort of like how the ISP options in the US are terrible because you're lucky if you've got more than one internet option where you live. The ISPs set up deals with the apartment complexes, the towns, etc. and basically section off the cities so you can't change providers without moving to a new part of town.

        The "pay to receive an SMS" thing reminds me of an old scam that used to be a thing before the US changed some laws to stop it. Sleazy people (or businesses) would send goods to people's houses in the post, unsolicited, and then follow up with a bill for the goods, requiring people to pay for the items they didn't even order. It was a common enough thing that the laws eventually had to explicitly provide protections for users receiving unsolicited goods.

        Or, more recently (and humourously), there was a news article about a woman that would break into people's houses, clean them, and then leave them a bill for services rendered. She finally got busted for it because she broke into a house with a kid in it and the parents freaked out or something. Point is, apparently some people would actually feel guilty and pay her, like fucking morons.