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I wonder why they can't/don't make use of a CDN to scale downloads. Unless they do already and I'm not aware.
by michaelmior 13y ago
I wonder why they can't/don't make use of a CDN to scale downloads. Unless they do already and I'm not aware.
- clone1018 13y agoCDNs cost a lot of money.
- remon 13y agoCertainly less than reinventing the wheel. You have to include development cost, maintenance and so forth that is not needed or significantly reduced on hosted content delivery services. See my post in this thread for details.
- michaelmior 13y agoThey can at the scale of the NPM registry, but I don't imagine some of the lower-end CDNs would be that much more expensive than scaling up the backend to meet demand.