From b3db659a9cdef9b90ca312143dfb0349d8d4562a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Marsicovetere <71470776+paulmarsicloud@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 11:01:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update 100-cdn.md (#1123) --- .../101-backend/content/110-caching/100-cdn.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/roadmaps/101-backend/content/110-caching/100-cdn.md b/content/roadmaps/101-backend/content/110-caching/100-cdn.md index 10851277a..6cfa909bc 100644 --- a/content/roadmaps/101-backend/content/110-caching/100-cdn.md +++ b/content/roadmaps/101-backend/content/110-caching/100-cdn.md @@ -1 +1,12 @@ -# Cdn \ No newline at end of file +# CDN (Content Delivery Network) + +A Content Delivery Network (CDN) service aims to provide high availability and performance improvements of websites. This is achieved with fast delivery of website assets and content typically via geographically closer endpoints to the client requests. +Traditional commercial CDNs (Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, CloudFlare and Fastly) provide servers across the globe which can be used for this purpose. +Serving assets and contents via a CDN reduces bandwidth on website hosting, provides an extra layer of caching to reduce potential outages and can improve website security as well + + +Free Content +CloudFlare - What is a CDN? | How do CDNs work? +Wikipedia - Content Delivery Network +What is Cloud CDN? +What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?