How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins

Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by theshrike79 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:13AM (#40829852)

But if clients were considerate, we wouldn't need to waste electricity and work hours to run CDNs?

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by yosefk on Saturday June 29, 2024 @10:18AM (#40830794)

You would want a CDN anyway to cache data across users, on servers close to those users, cutting the time & energy spent to serve the data.

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by archerx on Sunday June 30, 2024 @12:54AM (#40835224)

I feel like this is a marketing meme by cdn providers that gets parroted a lot. As someone who has used CDNs vs hosting on the server directly, CDNs are slower to load the images especially when there is a cache miss. The only reason I’m using a cdn is because I need to host 100gb+ images. If it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t use a cdn and get a better experience on the site.

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