Comments on: Apple has servers in South Africa?

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:19:19 +0000

Well that explains it then =)

For all intent and purpose this is a local MobileMe server, which is great for customers in SA.

Apple has recently acquired huge data centre infrastrucutre in the States that no one is certain what it will be doing with yet. Hopefully we continue to see more localised services via the partnership with Akamai, or otherwise.

By: Diaan

Diaan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:13:40 +0000

A traceroute shows the last 3 hops (from Neotel) to be jinx.net.za, then isnet.net and finally deploy.akamaitechnologies.com, so Colin is spot on and the data is coming via Akamai.

By: Colin Alston

Colin Alston — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:20:45 +0000

No, they are using Akamai.

coffee ~ # host www.me.com
www.me.com is an alias for www.me.com.edgesuite.net.
www.me.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1917.b.akamai.net.
a1917.b.akamai.net has address 196.33.166.200
a1917.b.akamai.net has address 196.33.166.210

Akamai has been hosting local servers for a while now. Microsoft updates come from Akamai on local bandwidth almost a year now as well as some Facebook content and other things.

By: Simon Dingle

Simon Dingle — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:19:19 +0000

By: Diaan

Diaan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:13:40 +0000

A traceroute shows the last 3 hops (from Neotel) to be jinx.net.za, then isnet.net and finally deploy.akamaitechnologies.com, so Colin is spot on and the data is coming via Akamai.

By: karnaugh

karnaugh — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:20:45 +0000

No they are using Akamai.

coffee ~ # host www.me.com
www.me.com is an alias for www.me.com.edgesuite.net.
www.me.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1917.b.akamai.net.
a1917.b.akamai.net has address 196.33.166.200
a1917.b.akamai.net has address 196.33.166.210

Akamai has been hosting local servers for a while now. Microsoft updates come from Akamai on local bandwidth almost a year now as well as some Facebook content and other things.