The term "CDN" ("content delivery network") conjures Google-scale companies managing huge racks of hardware, wrangling hundreds of gigabits per second. But CDNs are just web applications. That's not how we tend to think of them, but that's all they are. You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop.
huh yeah never thought about it
I blame how CDNs are advertised for the visual disconnect
Well it's a self serving article! It's easy to turn up a network of nodes on Fly.io. It's a little harder, but not impossible, to do the same elsewhere.
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huh yeah never thought about it
I blame how CDNs are advertised for the visual disconnect
It's misleading.
CDN software might be simple in the basic happy case, but you still need a Network of nodes to Deliver the Content.
Well it's a self serving article! It's easy to turn up a network of nodes on Fly.io. It's a little harder, but not impossible, to do the same elsewhere.