Content Delivery Network | System Design part - 7
Content Delivery Network is a network that acts as a network for servers which are spread over a wide area across the countries, These servers cache static content like images, videos, CSS and JavaScript files, etc.., Whenever a user opens a website, the CDN geographically closest to the user will deliver the static content, To convey it in simple terms we can say that, if there is a CDN in Hyderbad India that holds the static content of a website 1PerDay.com, people visiting that website from Mumbai takes less time to load the page compared to a person who is opening the website from Srilanka. To make a better user experience by loading the content of the webpage quickly, companies who have more market from other countries prefer to store their static content in local CDN's Along with the static content, CDN also stores other things based on the developer's configurations, Such as frequently accessed images, videos, and posts. User A tries to access an image from the image ...