Content Delivery Networks: Speed at Global Scale
Content Delivery Networks: Speed at Global Scale Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) place copies of your site content on servers around the world. When a user in Tokyo opens a page, they get assets from a nearby edge location instead of traveling to a distant origin. This reduces round trips and helps your pages feel snappy even on slow networks. How a CDN speeds up delivery Edge caching sits close to users, so frequently requested files stay local. Proximity routing uses smart DNS to send the user to the best edge. Modern protocols, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, multiplex requests over a single connection and reduce latency. TLS termination at the edge simplifies security and speeds up encryption. ...