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by jimlawruk 3476 days ago
The use of CDNs is not primarily for speeding up page load times, but rather to offload bandwidth from the web server. Low budget Web sites don't always have money for server farms and are severely limited by how much bandwidth they can serve. One post to HN can take them down. Free CDNs are the poor man's approach to this problem.