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It’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
by jiggawatts 2y ago
It’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.