Content Delivery Network (CDN)
noun
say it: “SEE-DEE-EN” /ˌsiː diː ˈɛn/
A network of servers around the world that hosts popular files, so pages can link to them and load them quickly.
What is Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
Content Delivery Network (CDN) — Servers around the world that keep copies of popular files, such as Bootstrap's stylesheet. Your page links to the file, and each visitor gets it from a server near them, often already in their browser's cache.
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.8/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
In a sentence
- “We load Bootstrap from a CDN, so visitors get it from a server near them.”
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