Google Cloud CDN
What is the purpose of CDN?
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) improves the performance, availability, and security of web content by distributing it across multiple servers located at various geographic locations. This reduces latency, ensures faster delivery of content to users, and enhances overall website performance and reliability.
Is Google Cloud CDN free?
Google Cloud CDN is not free, but it offers a free tier with a limited amount of usage. Beyond the free tier, pricing is based on factors such as cache egress, cache fill, and lookup requests, with varying rates depending on the region and volume of usage.
Is CDN a cache?
Yes, CDN (Content Delivery Network) functions as a cache by storing copies of content closer to end users, reducing latency and improving load times by serving cached content from edge locations rather than fetching it from the origin server every time a request is made. Additionally, CDNs employ caching strategies to optimize content delivery and reduce bandwidth usage.
Is DNS a CDN?
No, DNS (Domain Name System) is not a CDN (Content Delivery Network). DNS is a system that translates domain names into IP addresses to locate resources on the internet, while CDN is a network of servers distributed across multiple locations that deliver content to users efficiently based on their geographic location.
Is CDN and API same?
No, CDN (Content Delivery Network) and API (Application Programming Interface) serve different purposes.
What is Google Cloud CDN?
Cloud CDN will cache the content at edge locations that are located around the world. By doing so, we can reduce the latency, which improves the performance of our applications. It will enable users to access the content from nearby edge locations, regardless of the app or website you have, there’s a reasonable probability that your users are dispersed across the globe and aren’t necessarily local to your servers.
This implies that the requests go over a wide area of the public internet, resulting in unpredictable and annoying user experiences. In this situation, Cloud CDN is useful.