Ask HN: Are there only 2 reverse-CDN (CRN) in the entire world?

2 pointsdiegorbaquero3 comments

I could only find CloudFlare (with 100MB-500MB limits) and AWS S3 with Transfer Acceleration (With no-limit [Charge per GB]). Are there any others?

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Can you clarify "crn", whats the use case? From context I think youre looking for "PUT/POST" support and or layer 3/4/5 termination closer to the end user to bisect latency/loss/windowing?

Content Retrieval Network. Users would PUT/PATCH/POST to edge locations so it's faster on the upload.

CloudFlare reverse proxy and AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration (using CloudFront edges) do this.

Ah. I dont commonly see this use case called out. If a CDN supports verbs like POST PUT this should "just work." I dont know what support for write through vs write back etc looks like.

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