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CDN
Content Delivery Network - a network of servers distributed globally that delivers web content to users based on their location.
What is CDN?
A CDN stores copies of your website's files on servers around the world. When someone visits your site, they receive content from the nearest server rather than your origin server, which might be far away. This reduces load times, handles traffic spikes, and provides redundancy.
Example
If your website is hosted in New York, a visitor in Tokyo would experience slow load times. With a CDN, they load files from a Tokyo server instead.