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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by hueving on Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:47PM (#9713663)
That's somewhat helpful but won't be useful for anything uncachable (e.g. Someone's Facebook wall, twitter feed, emails, etc).
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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by rakoo on Sunday June 14, 2015 @07:07PM (#9716646)
Those things are extremely cacheable. The smart move here is to transport diff as much as possible, which is what Cloudflare is doing with railgun (https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun)
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