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Just the other day, I stumbled on Yet Another Startup CDN Provider, SimpleCDN. The CDN business has become very crowded as facilities-based carriers (AT&T and Level), start-ups (Limelight, Peer1, Panther Express), and the established leader (Akamai) engaged in a free-for-all over price. SimpleCDN’s value proposition is straightforward: pay a one-time up-front fee based on object size, instead of monthly based on usage. The big question I’m inclined to want answered is: how could this possibly work as a business?

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A whole lot of conferences are happening this week, and I’ll be attending two of them. On Monday and Tuesday of this week I’ll be attending O’Reilly’s Velocity conference, where I’ll be moderating a panel entitled “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about CDNs (but were afraid to ask).” I’m hoping that seems to be fun, but there ought to be a lot of other interesting people I’d like to see while there as well, including two other very smart folks from AOL (Mandi Walls and Eric Goldsmith). I’ve been thinking about this as “Web 2.0 Expo without all that boring UI and Business Stuff”. 

The second event I’ll be at will be GigaOM’s Structure 08. Cloud computing is really leveling the playing field, giving small start-ups access to world-class operational assets… which to me only underscore the importance of having brilliant Ops folks to run those systems. I’m eager to see what sort of discussions emerge.

If you happen to be at either, give me a buzz in the comments, and I’ll try and catch up with you.