Re:When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart
by cortesoft on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:12PM
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Wait, are you arguing that using a CDN is overrated? For everything, or just for HN?
A CDN is extremely valuable for a website that has cacheable content, since it allows a site to scale dynamically with increased load. This is the same reason people use AWS or any cloud provider; a website has to have the capacity to serve their highest peak traffic, but it is needlessly expensive to maintain that much infrastructure around the clock.
A CDN is extremely valuable for a website that has cacheable content, since it allows a site to scale dynamically with increased load. This is the same reason people use AWS or any cloud provider; a website has to have the capacity to serve their highest peak traffic, but it is needlessly expensive to maintain that much infrastructure around the clock.