Web Hosting with Content Delivery Network
Traditional website hosting platforms typically have bandwidth and storage limitations that could potentially hamper high-traffic websites with specific security and compliance needs. In such cases, CDN can improve site performance by caching data at edge servers to speed up page loads.
When visitors make requests for web content on a CMS-hosted website, its server delivers it from its origin server in Chicago before forwarding a copy to a CDN point-of-presence (POP) near where the visitor lives; then that POP stores it as a cached file so that when that same visitor makes another similar request later, their CDN server will deliver their response directly instead of passing it along through web hosting servers.
This helps ease the load on a single server and allows it to serve requests more quickly while preventing one server from becoming overwhelmed with too many requests, slowing site performance.
CDNs are used by many large websites to speed up the display of content to visitors. By decreasing bandwidth usage and loading media faster, they can increase site availability and performance by decreasing chances of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) or man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.