There are many popular websites which have millions of users located all around the world. In order to provide their customers with best experience, they tend to use CDN services for their websites. A CDN is very important for any big time business or website to provide its best services to its customers all around the world. There are many companies which provide CDN for your website.
What is CDN?
CDN or Content Delivery Network is a network of servers located all around the world on many different geographic locations so that the content can be made available in least possible time. CDN also improves the loading and response time of the website when a client tries to access the website. CDN is only used to increase the speed of data sharing between the server and the client. Though there are also some additional features that come with CDN but the main reason behind using this technology is the speed.
How will it work for your business?
When a user asks for any content whether it is a file or any kind of data, the data is imported from host servers and is sent to the client end. The server that is present closest to the geographic location of the client handles the request. This is done to ensure that the data takes the least amount of time to travel from server to the client. If you connect with the server from US to Australia it will definitely take a very long time to retrieve the data where as the data from New Zealand or from Singapore will takes rather less time to respond to the request. This also affects the speed of transfer of your file. If the file is large there is possibility that it would take very long time to completely download it. Also the longer connections will results in low download speed.
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