Antony Maina says, “A Content Delivery Network, also known as a Content Distribution Network or simply CDN, is a collection of global servers that caches and delivers content such as JavaScript files, videos and images. When you request a web page for example, content on that page is delivered by the closest server rather than the origin server, thereby hastening loading time.

CDN Management software dynamically calculates the distance from the nearest server to the requesting client and delivers content based on those calculations. This comes with a host of benefits, including:

Accommodation of Heavy Traffic and Elimination of Pauses

Video streaming often results in pauses and jitters due to lags in transmission times, but CDNs help to reduce these occurrences by delivering better user experience when downloading audio and video content.

Faster Loading

CDNs improve page loading time causing almost instantaneous page loads. Of course, businesses, especially online ones, could experience increase in sales due to this.

File Mirroring

CDNs provide you with file mirroring abilities that protect data in case natural disasters happen and affect certain areas of the Internet”.

What is a Content Delivery Network?

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