What is CDN

[markwinget]

A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers which work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content. A CDN allows for the quick transfer of assets needed for loading Internet content including HTML pages, java script files, style sheets, images, and videos.

[arunviru]

A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers which work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content.

[neolift]

A content delivery network, or content distribution network, is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end users.

[solarvps]

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network, it also stands for Content Distribution Network. This is a globally distributed network of proxy servers deployed in multiple data centers and when your website is joined with this type of network the content of your website is served to end-users with high availability and high performance. CDNs serve a large fraction of the Internet content today, including web objects for example: text, graphics, downloadable objects like media files, software, documents, applications, e-commerce, portals, live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks.

CDN increase the page speed when users are viewing your website no matter where they are in the world because the website pages are cached at the different array of data centers all over the place, so the content provided to the user comes from the server closest to them and in return this also lowers the load level of the server. Most of these types of networks operate as an application service provider this is known as ASP on the Internet also known as on-demand software or software as a service (SaaS).

[Stellajones]

Full form of CDN is content delivery network.

[Rocky]

A CDN (content delivery network), also called a content distribution network, is a group of geographically distributed and interconnected servers. They provide cached internet content from a network location closest to a user to speed up its delivery.