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