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There are numerous reasons for employing a CDN. DDOS protection, for example, is another one. Many of those reasons will apply to long-tail content like GH of
by berkes 5y ago
There are numerous reasons for employing a CDN. DDOS protection, for example, is another one.
Many of those reasons will apply to long-tail content like GH of Twitter and offer benefits there.
I was talking about the most obvious benefit of a CDN: caching on edge-servers.
- acdha 5y agoYes – my point was simply that caching connections (at any of the layers mentioned) is also often enough to be a net win even if the content cannot be cached.