A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content more efficiently to users.<\/p>\n
Some large Internet companies own their own CDN, but it’s cost-effective to use a CDN service provider, such as\u00a0Akamai Technologies<\/a>,\u00a0Mirror Image Internet<\/a>, or\u00a0Limelight Networks<\/a>.<\/p>\n For start-up companies and private web sites, the cost of a CDN service can be prohibitive, but as your target audience grows larger and becomes more global, a CDN is necessary to achieve fast response times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content more efficiently to users. Some large Internet companies own their own CDN, but it’s cost-effective to use a CDN service provider, such as\u00a0Akamai Technologies,\u00a0Mirror Image Internet, or\u00a0Limelight Networks. For start-up companies and private web sites, the cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,53,39],"tags":[592,591,593],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersnetworks","category-server-management","category-web-hosting","tag-cdn","tag-cdn-service","tag-content-delivery-network-cdn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}