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The Basic of Content Delivery Network(CDN)

To keep it simple, at it core a DND basically stand for a group of server distributed or placed around the word at keys location, they all work together and delivers you with fast internet content. Many of the websites you use today use CDN to deliver content to you quickly. Some of these are Meta or Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, & GitHub.

CDNs allow today's modern web server to transfers files like HTML, JS, Stylesheets, Images, and Videos quick and fast between each others, as these files are needed to build a web pages.

A CDN IS NOT A WEB HOSTING SERVICE, AND WILL NOT REPLACE THE NEED FOR A PROPER HOSTING SERVER.

A CDN Cache the Website content at the network edge, this mean that the main landing pages for websites, so files like HTML and CSS and a some JavaScript, are kept at the CDN servers.

  • A CDN helps to improve Load Time of Websites.
  • Help Reduce the Cost of Network Bandwidth costs while hosting.
  • Helps to Improve Websites Security.
  • The Content Availability increased as well as the redundancy.

At its core, a CDN is a network of servers linked together with the goal of delivering content as quickly, cheaply, reliably, and securely as possible. In order to improve speed and connectivity, a CDN will place servers at the exchange points between different networks, Reference this Article.

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