{"id":5494,"date":"2020-02-05T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:35:19","slug":"what-is-content-delivery-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/what-is-content-delivery-network\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Introduction to Content Delivery Network(CDN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/features\/cdn-integration\/\"><strong>Content Delivery Network (CDN)<\/strong><\/a> is a system of distributed networks that deliver pages and other web content to a user, based on the geographic location of the requesting user.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The closer the <strong>Content Delivery Network (CDN)<\/strong> server is to the user geographically, as a result, the faster the content will be delivered to the requesting user.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of two components:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, <strong>Origin Server &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0 where the content to be distributed over the internet is stored originally.<\/li>\n<li>And, <strong>Cache Server-<\/strong> where the content is duplicated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>How does CDN work?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Network (Server) which is nearest to the visitor&#8217;s website will respond to the request of the visitor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After that, it copies the pages of a website to a network of servers and disperses them across different geographical locations, caching the content of the page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a user requests a webpage from a CDN, the request is redirected to a nearby server, which delivers the cached content.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will also communicate with the originating server to deliver any content that has not been previously cached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Untitled-Diagram-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5545\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Untitled-Diagram-8-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"CDN\" width=\"443\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2><strong>Benefits of Using CDN:-<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Generally, it Improves the website load time<\/li>\n<li>Improves content accessibility across the globe<\/li>\n<li>Reducing bandwidth costs<\/li>\n<li>Increasing content availability and redundancy<\/li>\n<li>Improving website security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Few Examples of CDN Providers:-<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>RACKSPACE<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>GOOGLE CLOUD CDN<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>MAX CDN<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>AKAMAI<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SWARMIFY<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>LIMELIGHT<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>MICROSOFT AZURE CDN<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>AMAZON CLOUDFRONT<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>CLOUDFLARE<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>KEY CDN<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>STACKPATH CDN<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SOFTLAYER CDN<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>INCAPSULA CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>CACHE FLY<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>CDN 77<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>MaxCDN &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Its servers are equipped with fast SSD drives spread across data centers\u00a0 around the world. It is super easy to install and setup MaxCDN in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>However, it works beautifully with popular WordPress caching plugins like W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cloudflare &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>They are known for offering a free CDN for small websites, but the free plan has limited DDoS protection and fewer features than the paid plans.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, they also have an <em><strong>&#8216;I am under attack Mode&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 feature.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>KeyCDN &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It offers pay as you go plans, which means you pay for what you use instead of fixed monthly payment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, they offer a powerful network of servers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN) &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is an American CDN and cloud service provider with one of the world&#8217;s largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15% and 30% of all the web traffic.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Amazon Cloudfront &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/amazon-cloudfront-improve-performace-of-your-websites\/\">Amazon Cloudfront<\/a> servers are located in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, as well as in several major cities of the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And this service operates on a pay-as-you-go basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Google Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Is it based on Google&#8217;s globally distributed edge points of presence?<\/p>\n<p>We reduce costs and improve user experience by connecting Google traffic to our global network of interconnection points.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) &#8211;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is a global CDN for audio, video, apps, images, and static files, caching assets closer to users to boost performance.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>CDN Performance Analytics and Comparison:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Comparison among different <strong>CDN<\/strong> providers&#8217; uptime in past one year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdnperf.com\/#!rum,world,2019-01-22\">https:\/\/www.cdnperf.com\/#!rum,world,2019-01-22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comparison among different <strong>CDN<\/strong> providers&#8217; performance in past one year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdnperf.com\/#!performance,world,2019-01-22\">https:\/\/www.cdnperf.com\/#!performance,world,2019-01-22<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"word\">In conclusion, CDN is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"word\">The goal is to provide high availability and high performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end-users. In our future blogs, we will discuss leading CDN providers of upcoming years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For further help<\/strong><strong> or<\/strong><strong> query, please <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/contact\/\">contact<\/a>\u00a0us\u00a0or raise a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webkul.uvdesk.com\/en\/customer\/create-ticket\/\">ticket<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a system of distributed networks that deliver pages and other <a class=\"text-primary\" title=\"read more\" href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/what-is-content-delivery-network\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,87,341,96,340,36],"tags":[260,84,255,150,261,259,256,257],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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