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CDN – Why do websites require content delivery network

Ankit Agrawal
Ankit Agrawal
Published on February 21, 2020 · 1 min read

CDN – content delivery network help your website to load faster (check your website speed). It provide alternative server nodes for users to download static content. It also help to reduce malicious attacks on websites.

CDN also knows as content distribution network because it distributes all the request geographically to improve website performance. It stores cache version of all content in different different locations and when user request to our site it find the nearest location and deliver the content.

How it works

cdn minimize the distance between user and website content. It stores website content geographically to cache servers and serve it according to user’s location.  This process called pop – point of presence.

Benefits of using a CDN

  1. Reduce website load time
  2. Minimize malicious attacks
  3. Reduce hosting cost
  4. Increase availability of content
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Ankit Agrawal

Ankit Agrawal

Author & Senior Engineer at CodeExecute

Writing practical engineering guides, debugging real-world bottlenecks, and creating free tools for developer productivity.

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