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> if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests only (1 metadata for all images, 50 downloads)

But unless you return the same host for 50 objects, I'm going to have to do a bunch of DNS lookups too, right? And a bunch of SSL setups.

Hopefully you at least make sure to try and return a single host for all the objects in a request.

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>Hopefully you at least make sure to try and return a single host for all the objects in a request.

our goal is to saturate the _User's_ network. Now it's hard to say how many Peers we need to meet this requirement. It looks like 2-3 Peers are enough.

Also, when you have 50 Peers, you have to do 50 DNS/SSL requests in _parallel_. With current hardware, it's not a big deal.

> With current hardware, it's not a big deal.

You should make this your marketing slogan.

"Try our CDN, with current hardware the gross inefficiencies other CDNs spend a lot of time and effort eliminating are not a big deal."

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