CDN

1 Β· Chuangcius Β· Feb. 27, 2023, 3:47 p.m.
1. What is CDN? The diagram below shows what is 𝐂𝐃𝐍 (Content Delivery Network) A CDN refers to geographically distributed servers (edge servers) that provide fast delivery of 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐒𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐒𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭. With CDN, users don’t need to retrieve content (music, video, files, pictures, etc.) from the origin server. Instead, the content is cached at CDN nodes around the globe, and users can retrieve the content from nearby CDN nodes. The benefits of CDN are: Improving latency Reducing bandwi...