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Is that actually true, or only that you can serve it from one server behind a lot of servers named CDN?
by JonChesterfield 2y ago
Is that actually true, or only that you can serve it from one server behind a lot of servers named CDN?
- jiggawatts 2y agoIt’s definitely true. It won’t be optimal or fast for end users, but it’s entirely doable. One of the main benefits of a CDN is that it brings the data closer to the users, reducing network latency. Obviously a single server can’t be close to every user globally! In practice one would always use a CDN for a site like WikiPedia but the point is that it isn’t necessary to handle the traffic. A single two-socket EPYC server can put out something like 400 Gbps of traffic, which is far more than all but the biggest sites.