Re:When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart
by Alupis on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:59PM
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> This is an unnecessary step, and is highly over-rated
Given the volume of traffic HN sees, and given their desire to not be DDoS'ed, it seems to be a necessary step, that is not over-rated.
To be clear, you'd see similar results with any CDN sitting in front of HN... The benefits really start to show (from an end-user's perspective) when you're on poor connections or are far away from their (HN's, in this case) server/cluster. HN sees immediate benefits for the things above, plus it saves them a lot of bandwidth.
Given the volume of traffic HN sees, and given their desire to not be DDoS'ed, it seems to be a necessary step, that is not over-rated.
To be clear, you'd see similar results with any CDN sitting in front of HN... The benefits really start to show (from an end-user's perspective) when you're on poor connections or are far away from their (HN's, in this case) server/cluster. HN sees immediate benefits for the things above, plus it saves them a lot of bandwidth.