Content Delivery Networks
Content delivery networks can speed up a website significantly. Learn about them in this lesson.
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The problem
Suppose you run a website, and its hosting server is in San Francisco. When a user from Sydney tries to access your website, however, they will experience some latency due to the large geographical distance between the two locations. This can result in a subpar user-experience, and hence user-dissatisfaction.
Secondly, an attacker can easily compromise your website by launching a DDOS attack against the server in San Francisco, since it’s a single point of failure.
The solution: content delivery networks
A content ...