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Would be good to have some rationale or understanding why someone would use this other than a broad based CDN such as CloudFlare or AWS? Are image only CDN's a
by bentocorp 2y ago
Would be good to have some rationale or understanding why someone would use this other than a broad based CDN such as CloudFlare or AWS?
Are image only CDN's a sustainable market? Maybe they are, and I'm just ignorant on why websites would choose such a thing over a general CDN.
Surely if someone has enough traffic or load to require a CDN then they would want it for their whole site and not just for image resources?
- youngtaff 2y agoGiven Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly all offer image processing this isn’t a market I’d get into
- curben 2y agoImage CDN primarily offers image resizing, especially useful for responsive images. It has a sizable market, both Cloudflare and AWS offer image processing service, see also major players like Cloudinary and Cloudimage. Image and general CDNs are not exclusive: pictures resized on-the-fly and hosted on image CDN, while html/js/css hosted on general CDN.
- chillfox 2y agoI think this is for blogs/sales pages using shared hosting maybe also people who likes sharing images on forums. Uploading an image and then copy pasting the link looks a lot easier than navigating CloudFlare or AWS. Basically, if you feel comfortable with big cloud user interfaces then you are not the target.