Content Delivery Networks Speed Scale and Security
Content Delivery Networks: Speed, Scale, and Security Content Delivery Networks, or CDNs, place copies of your content on servers around the world. This keeps data close to users, so pages load faster and videos start sooner. A CDN helps with images, scripts, styles, and streaming data, reducing the time to first byte and smoothing peak traffic. How speed is boosted By caching content at edge nodes, a CDN serves most requests from a nearby location. DNS routing directs users to the closest healthy edge server. Modern protocols like HTTP/2 and QUIC allow more data to travel in parallel, so assets arrive quickly. CDNs also offer image and video optimization to shrink file sizes without hurting quality. ...