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Re:Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit by severine on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:04PM (#16381395)
What is POP?
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Re:Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit by janoszen on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:36AM (#16382314)
A POP or edge location is a server (or multiple) that the user traffic is being routed to, hopefully close to the user. A CDN consists of multiple POPs, one in each region, with intelligent traffic routing added (as described in the article).
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