Performance computer network method

Abstract

A method for a computer network includes a plurality of customer web servers, each of the customer web servers storing a web page, using a POP DNS server to determine a customer web server from the plurality of customer web servers, the customer web server having a traffic load lower than traffic loads of other customer web servers in the plurality of customer web servers, requesting the web page from the customer web server, the web page including static content represented by an embedded URL, resolving the URL to a POP DNS server within a POP server network, using the POP DNS server to determine a web cache from a plurality of web caches to provide static content for the URL.

1 . A system, comprising:
 a graphical interface that allows a customer to view current and/or historical statistics of a Web site resident on the customer's Web server;   a Web page resident on the customer's Web server, said Web page including static content represented by an embedded URL;   wherein the static content is resident on a plurality of Web caches within a POP server network; and   a global traffic manager that manages traffic across a plurality of the customer's Web servers and the plurality of Web caches, the global traffic manager gathering data for the graphical interface.