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by zspitzer 3273 days ago
no, it's just sending a tiny zip file, decompression occurs at the other end
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chamakits 3273 days ago
10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints.
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toomuchtodo 3273 days ago
Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer.
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DamnInteresting 3272 days ago
The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:

> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.

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