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Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by emilsedgh »

hashemian wrote: post #128
emilsedgh wrote: post #74

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That reminds me of a funny story. I used to live on Tehran, Iran. All restaurants, stores and businesses must be closed after 12:00 AM in Tehran. So one night me and a friend were driving around the town in midnight and we were quite hungry. So we found a nice guy selling tea in the winter and there were other people around. We asked them if we can find food anywhere in town in this hour. One of them gave us an addre…

Are you sure it wasn't a scam to rip you off? I'm born and raised in Tehran and numerous times I had gone out for dinner passed mid-night, and I simply walked into a restaurant, ordered the food, and ate (assuming the kitchen was still open). Specially because people in Tehran prefer to have late supper compared to North Americans, it was a lot easier to find food options late at night than say in Toronto where past…

The law has been in place for several years now. Definitely not a scam! If you're in Tehran you can check the place out.

Email me on (my username)@gmail.com and I'll give you more detailed address if you're interested.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by fapjacks »

stavros wrote: post #91
emilsedgh wrote: post #74

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That reminds me of a funny story. I used to live on Tehran, Iran. All restaurants, stores and businesses must be closed after 12:00 AM in Tehran. So one night me and a friend were driving around the town in midnight and we were quite hungry. So we found a nice guy selling tea in the winter and there were other people around. We asked them if we can find food anywhere in town in this hour. One of them gave us an addre…

Similar story, I was in Barcelona, and if you walk around the beach at night, you see dodgy-looking immigrants that will approach you and quietly ask if you want a cold beer. See, it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol past a certain hour, so these guys provide a valuable service. However, I was with a friend who wanted to smoke some weed instead, so he went and asked one of the guys "do you have any weed?" The guy…

There is no way those guys didn't have weed or hashish. That's what those guys in Barcelona (and the Belearics) have.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by philtar »

stavros wrote: post #91
emilsedgh wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That reminds me of a funny story. I used to live on Tehran, Iran. All restaurants, stores and businesses must be closed after 12:00 AM in Tehran. So one night me and a friend were driving around the town in midnight and we were quite hungry. So we found a nice guy selling tea in the winter and there were other people around. We asked them if we can find food anywhere in town in this hour. One of them gave us an addre…

Similar story, I was in Barcelona, and if you walk around the beach at night, you see dodgy-looking immigrants that will approach you and quietly ask if you want a cold beer. See, it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol past a certain hour, so these guys provide a valuable service. However, I was with a friend who wanted to smoke some weed instead, so he went and asked one of the guys "do you have any weed?" The guy…

When were you in Barcelona? It's easier to find weed than cigarettes and that's not even including the social smoking clubs popping up all over the city.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by ec109685 »

Alupis wrote: post #77
rdl wrote: post #69

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It will speed Internet access for Cuban users (regular people, government, visitors, etc.). As local access gets liberalized (which seems inevitable), the international links will be contended -- Cuba isn't rich, and there isn't a huge amount of lit connectivity in place between Cuba and Miami yet. Seems safe to assume that most Cuban users will be accessing US or EU websites. Caching in Cuba, especially for large me…

> It will speed Internet access for Cuban users Cloudflare being in Cuba or not will have zero impact on this... unless Cloudflare is getting into the last-mile business (doubtful, but possible). > As local access gets liberalized (which seems inevitable) Inevitable, probably, but in 1 year's time - unlikely. > Caching in Cuba, especially for large media content, will make the same amount of international bandwidth c…

Why are you setting such a high bar for "benefit" from CloudFlare?

For web sites that Cloudflare does cache its assets, the latency of downloading those assets will certainly improve. Similarly, being able to establish an https connection on Cuban soil will be a win for customers given they are likely going to be hitting web servers thousands of miles away.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by abricot »

Alupis wrote: post #78
skybrian wrote: post #75

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I haven't used Cloudflare, but aren't you paying to make your website globally available? Good access from Cuba is one small part of that. Maybe not the part you care about, but other people might - that's what happens with bundling.

> aren't you paying to make your website globally available? No, any website (unless blocked by a nation-state) is by default accessible globally. Yes, Cloudflare's CDN offers increased performance for global visitors, but with so few people online in Cuba, there's very little sense in fronting the cost of building all this infrastructure just to have a Cloudflare PoP there. There's many other nations much larger and…

I don't think your proportions are right.

> Cubans have bigger concerns than getting a page to load a few milliseconds faster.

A big concern for Cubans could very well have, is having webpages load several seconds faster (I don't think we're talking miliseconds). They are paying per minute.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by abricot »

jakub_h wrote: post #123
rezashirazian wrote: post #66

I used to live in Iran when I was a child and we had the equivalent of this but for VHS tapes. Once a week, a man with a large suitcase would come by our house. He would set his suitcase on the table, open it up and show us his collection of American and Europeans (and very illegal) movies. My mom would pick 5-6 and return the tapes we borrowed from the week before. I was very young back then but I remember it vividl…

Very illegal in Europe or very illegal in Iran?

Take a wild guess...

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by cagataygurturk »

stavros wrote: post #91
emilsedgh wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That reminds me of a funny story. I used to live on Tehran, Iran. All restaurants, stores and businesses must be closed after 12:00 AM in Tehran. So one night me and a friend were driving around the town in midnight and we were quite hungry. So we found a nice guy selling tea in the winter and there were other people around. We asked them if we can find food anywhere in town in this hour. One of them gave us an addre…

Similar story, I was in Barcelona, and if you walk around the beach at night, you see dodgy-looking immigrants that will approach you and quietly ask if you want a cold beer. See, it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol past a certain hour, so these guys provide a valuable service. However, I was with a friend who wanted to smoke some weed instead, so he went and asked one of the guys "do you have any weed?" The guy…

All those guys, but all are selling drugs. Not only weed, in BCN it is easy to get weed semi-legally thanks to those clubs. Beer guys are in other-class-of-drugs business and if they did not sell to you it is because they did not trust in you. even police knows that but it is a controlled business. The government can't prevent drugs, instead they just observe them and keep them under control.

Re: The Cuban CDN

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Post by toomuchtodo »

eastdakota wrote: post #116
toomuchtodo wrote: post #113

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I did networking in another life, and I'd love to take some vacation time from my current gig to finagle networking in Cuba or Caracas. Dangerous? Of course. Where would the fun be if it wasn't.

https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team/

Wow, appreciate it.
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