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Sovereign-Source Identity, Autonomy, and Learning

Our goal at BYU is to teach students to be life-long learners. We believe that giving students autonomy and control is the surest way to achieve that goal.
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CloudFront Seems Like a No-Brainer

Doug Kaye, who actually wrote a book on hosting, has been beta testing Amazon's CloudFront service--a high performance front end for Amazon S3. Doug's favorably impressed. My calculations show that Kynetx would be able to put 80% of our bandwidth load on CloudFront (most static JS libraries) for $1.19 per day and if Doug's experience is typical get better performance to boot! Seems like a no-brainer to me given that we're paying several hundred dollars per month for a 750 Kbps circuit that I'd rather not upgrade for a while. Offloading 80% of that traffic would give us a
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