Free Global Content Delivery Network (CDN)

How Our CDN Works

A content delivery network serves over half of the internet’s traffic with the goal of reducing the delay between a submitted web page request and the page loading on your device completely, known as latency. The CDN reduces the physical distance the request travels. For example, if someone in the U.K. wants to view content that originates in a U.S.-based server, the request travels across the Atlantic and they will experience slow loading times. But, a CDN can prevent this from happening as it stores cached versions of websites in many geographical locations worldwide.

When a content delivery network puts in a request for content, many times it will result in the end-user being mapped to a CDN server that is optimally located, and the server responds with the pre-saved cache to the request. If for some reason it cannot locate the files, it searches the other CDN platform servers for the content and sends its findings to the end-user.

While delivering website content is its main responsibility, CDNs can also deliver more, such as audio streams, HD-quality and 4K video, games, apps, and other software downloads, as well as OS updates like data records containing financial and medical information. A CDN has the potential of delivering almost any digitized data.