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ameliustoday at 9:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

But isn't a CDN a commodity? I.e., you can switch to a different one with almost no effort.


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pyvpxtoday at 10:04 AM

How does that quip go again…there are only two difficulties in computer science, cache invalidation, naming things, and counting.

Going from one CDN to another can be infuriating even at a surprisingly small scale. Mostly (imo) from caching semantics and counting.

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kyprotoday at 10:11 AM

It's not really a commodity when Cloudflare is often cheaper, simpler and provides a better service compared to it's competitors.

For it to be a commodity there would be no good reason to pick Cloudflare over any alternative and this absolutely isn't the case.