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by reverius42 92 days ago
It's only a few hundred MB, and hopefully they're using a CDN.
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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.
> hammer their website unnecessarily

This is what a CDN will prevent