1. At a computer system in a ring infrastructure, the computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the ring infrastructure including a ring of nodes, a method for providing optimized access to a ring infrastructure resource, the method comprising: an act of receiving a user request to access a ring infrastructure resource, the user request sent from a requesting user component; an act of detecting that the user request is not directed to an optimized location for accessing the ring infrastructure resource within the ring infrastructure based on processing information and one or more of: the characteristics of the requesting user component and the characteristics of the user request; and an act of sending an indication of an appropriately optimized location for the requesting user component to access the ring infrastructure resource based on the processing information and the one or more of: the characteristics of the requesting user component and the characteristics of the user request.