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Re:CDNs and Centrality by calpaterson on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:58AM (#27729294)
> Creating POPs is not as trivial as creating a Heroku or Render like service on top of public clouds.

I didn't claim that it was.

> Unless the CDN has a good edge-close-to-cities presence and a high number of those, users will generally not see value in the CDN.

A home truth is that most CDN users don't give a monkeys about per-city POPs. If you just had one POP per continent that would probably be sufficient to cut latency by ~75% for cache hits. Many real world CDNs have <50 POPs (eg CDN77, which has 33) and some have <25 (eg BunnyCDN sells a package with just 8 POPs). These businesses have already existed for some years and have a real customer bases.

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Re:CDNs and Centrality by rajnathani on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:25PM (#27731198)
Sorry it was ambiguous. By “users”, we mean the business buyers of the CDN service. Eg: As a developer, I don’t know where exactly my users are, if thus I was spending the same, then I would rationally prefer a CDN which has more POPs than one which has fewer.
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Re:CDNs and Centrality by calpaterson on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:00PM (#27731443)
It wasn't ambiguous, I meant buyers.
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