What is a CDN and how does it work?
CDN or content delivery networks are a set geographically distributed group of servers created to reduce latency and increase your site speed. Essentially, a CDN helps load websites faster for the end-user and increases a website’s protection against DDoS attacks.
These servers are placed at exchange points between different networks. Essentially, a CDN creates copies of a website's content and stores it across several servers around the world. This helps elevate a local visitor’s experience with your website.
Create a website today!Appy Pie Website’s free CDN
One of the top features within Appy Pie’s website builder is the inbuilt CDN. This lets you create extremely fast websites with ease! Appy Pie’s website builder offers one of the best CDN’s in the world for your convenience. We’ve partnered with some of the top server providers around the world to help you get the most out of your websites on a global scale.
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Almost 2x as fast
Websites built with Appy Pie’s website builder load up two times faster than the average website.
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No extra charges
CDN is a free service for your Website Builder subscription. No extra charges for your website needs.
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Easy-to-Use
You can adjust the in-built CDN for your particular needs and help drive up the traffic to your website.
Why Appy Pie Website's CDN is perfect for you
Global coverage
Appy Pie’s servers are situated around the world for your convenience. Appy Pie is more than capable of handling your website’s massive traffic needs. It handles heavy traffic load and sudden traffic spikes better than other website builders.
Excellent security
Appy Pie’s CDN mitigates security threats and can help protect your website from DDoS attacks. Since each website comes with an SSL certificate as standard, Appy Pie’s CDN goes the extra mile to protect your new websites.
Seamlessly integrated
Appy Pie CDN is an inbuilt part of its website builder. Our CDN works without hitches, is secure, and ensures that your website never experiences latency or crashes.
Website analytics
Do more with your website content with Website Builder’s inbuilt analytics. Our CDN adds more oomph to your website analytics and helps you analyze your global traffic to help you optimize your strategies.
Benefits of using a Content Delivery Network
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Improves site speed
CDNs distribute content faster by sharing the content to a user’s nearest CDN server improving site speed and performance significantly. Just like this, CDNs have various in-built optimizations that improve your site’s speed.
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Reduced bandwidth costs
Bandwidth cost is an ongoing expense for a growing website. With Appy Pie Website Builder’s CDN, bandwidth costs can be minimized thanks to the reduced data requirements of CDN servers.
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Decrease redundancy
Large amounts of traffic and hardware failure can interrupt the smooth functioning of a website. Distributed CDNs help cope up with these redundancies and are less prone to crashing.
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Improved security
CDNs protect your website because they provide you with DDoS mitigation, improvements to security certificates, and various other optimizations. Websites with CDNs are also harder to hack into.
Top Frequently Asked Questions
Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers deployed in multiple data centers worldwide to deliver the content with the best possible performance.
CDN network works by caching the static content of your website on the servers of the CDN provider. When a user requests a page from your website, the CDN provider will serve the static content from its servers. This will reduce the load on your server and will speed up the delivery of your content.
CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It is a network of servers that deliver content to end-users with high availability and high performance.
CDN provides you with the following benefits:
- Speed up your website and improve user experience
- Improve the performance of your mobile applications
- Reduce bandwidth costs by serving content from a nearby location
- Reduce latency and improve your website's performance
- Protect your business from DDoS attacks by using a CDN service provider that offers DDoS protection
To set up your CDN network, you need to take care of-
- Origin server: This is where your static assets are hosted. It can be an internal server or an external host like Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files.
- Edge servers: These are the servers that actually deliver the content to end-users when they request it from your website. You need at least one edge server for each location to deliver your content, e.g., US, West Coast, and Europe.
If you use an external hosting provider like Appy Pie's CDN Network, they will usually have their own edge servers that will cache your assets. So you don't need any additional hardware/software yourself unless you want more control over how things work.
Content delivery networks are priced based on the amount of bandwidth you need. The price is usually based on the amount of data transferred per month.
It depends on the type of content you are delivering and your target audience. There are many different providers available on the internet. However, we recommend you choose Appy Pie's CDN network as it can cater to all your business needs.
