What is CDN

You can easily google for such types of info. However, in simple webopedia terms: A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver pages and other Web content to a user, based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and the content delivery server.
 
CDN is a Content Delivery Network. It offers the below benefits:

1. It improves the performance of your website.
2. It helps to offer higher uptime.
3. Your website gets higher level of security.
 
According to Wikipedia a content delivery network or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and high performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end-users.
 
A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver pages and other Web content to a user, based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and the content delivery server.
 
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a global cluster of caches that can serve as local caches for static files (objects).
 
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