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dyauspitryesterday at 8:51 AM1 replyview on HN

For someone that doesn’t know about this, how does a CDN help? Don’t they still have to pay for all the data downloaded even if it’s hosted on a CDN. I thought the whole purpose of a CDN was just to make access quicker and had nothing to do with saving on bandwidth costs.


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petcatyesterday at 10:58 AM

> hammer their website unnecessarily

This is what a CDN will prevent