Netscape MAE colocation?

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Hi,

Stephen Balbach wrote:

And Netscape has some mighty big SGI's promintently displayed as
you walk in.

Netscape's web servers? Interesting, does Netscape now host their
gigahit-per-day web servers outside the West Coast (in-house or
at ISI.NET?) I was wondering if Netscape now "redirects" web browsers
to their "nearest" server? This would be cool if it would set a precedent;
hopefully they and other high-volume providers would set up mirrors
*outside* the US so that folks wouldn't spend their bandwidth pulling their
(uncacheable) pages in.

If Netscape is indeed doing this, do HTTP traffic analysis and the business
case show that selecting different locations for web servers is
"worth it"?

Regards,

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And Netscape has some mighty big SGI's promintently displayed as

   >> you walk in.
   >
   >Netscape's web servers? Interesting, does Netscape now host their
   >gigahit-per-day web servers outside the West Coast (in-house or
   >at ISI.NET?) I was wondering if Netscape now "redirects" web browsers
   >to their "nearest" server? This would be cool if it would set a precedent;

I thought http still went back to the west coast and it was just ftp
services that were hosted out here on the east coast..?