CDN stands for Content Delivery Network . It represents a group of servers placed in various countries with the purpose of accelerating the delivery of static web content.
Scalability on high traffic
The CDN will scale up and down depending on the traffic. A major part of most of the websites today is static content. This content gets cached by the CDN, which drastically reduces the origin server load. In general, the CDN handles around 70% of a website’s load.
Reliability
A website might happen to go down at any point in time for various reasons. The CDN actually provides reliability, as the CDN network routes the trafic to the nearest available Point of Presence.
DDoS protection
Since most of the traffic is static and is served by the CDN, the CDN profiter takes care of mitigating DDoS attache on the Edge Servers.
SSL encryption
Amongst the CSN security features, providing a SSL ensure encryption between the edge server and the origin server.
Native Host Integration
In most cases, CDNs are already integrated with a majority of hosting providers. This usually comes at a price but integrated a free CDN such as CloudFlare manually doesn’t take more than 5 minutes.
SEO advantages
Page speed is a major factor in search engine optimisation, and directly affects page rankings. Google loves fast pages, and recommends measuring the speed of your website using PageSpeed. If you have a slow server, using a CDN which serves content fast will increase the overall note of your page.
Conclusion
CDN is more than benefic for any website. We recommend you try using one.
Check our article on how to quickly setup a CloudFlare account in a few easy steps.
