it’s a shame lightweight caching proxies at the edge don’t get the big parties and glamorous media coverage and fat paychecks because if’n they did maybe we’d stop trying to reinvent how to efficiently cache and serve the same ten file formats so we don’t make them fall over when someone asks for one of those files because we sure ain’t good at it in the general case. install squid. be happier.

in a world that made sense, we wouldn’t copy these media artifacts from server to server because requesting it directly from the source would be both fast for the requestor and lightweight for the source server.