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Re:Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit by kardos on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:13PM (#16377335)
So one could setup an automated crawler thatbruns frequently to keep everything in cache?
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Re:Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit by janoszen on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:26PM (#16377449)
Yes, but you would need a crawler that does so in every region, or at least know the IPs of the edge nodes on that CDN. You would probably also hit some rate limit / DDoS protection with the CDN itself.
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