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Re:What is a CDN? How do CDNs work? by amelius on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:17AM (#34705910)
I'm betting they don't just use NGINX, but also specialized hardware.
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Re:What is a CDN? How do CDNs work? by comprev on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:22AM (#34706311)
Cloudflare has an article on introducing specialist hardware to their stack [0]

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/asics-at-the-edge/

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Re:What is a CDN? How do CDNs work? by sophacles on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:58AM (#34710921)
Not the same type of specialized "CDN Hardware" that was implied in the parent, this is just "big network" customization at the packet forwarding layer.
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Re:What is a CDN? How do CDNs work? by bosch_mind on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:52AM (#34708782)
They don’t use NGINX anymore
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