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# Content Delivery Network - CDN

## What

* the technology provides a way of serving assets such as static HTML, CSS, Javascript, and images over the web much faster than serving them from a single origin server.
* It works by distributing the content across many “edge” servers around the world so that users end up downloading assets from the “edge” servers instead of the origin server