A CDN is an abbreviation of Content Delivery Network, or Content Distribution Network. CDNs are servers placed at various locations which are used to distribute files to users from the geographically nearest server in order to reduce loading time and avoid bottlenecks.
CDN networks are often used to speed up the delivery and loading time of websites. For example a website can be hosted in the US, but some of the files (typically large images) can be hosted elsewhere so the main server serving the content doesn’t get slowed down. Additionally, these files may be hosted on a different country or even continent as well so the visitors from those regions experience faster site loading times.
A basic example of how CDN works
CDN-delivered content may be downloadable objects such as images or documents, web objects, applications, database queries etc. There’s rarely a large website today which doesn’t use a CDN to deliver its contents faster and the demand for these services is growing rapidly.
This website will focus on proving an overview of content delivery networks, a comparison of their features and a review of their services.
