How a reader made a US site fast for readers in Australia
A reader's site lived on a server in Texas. Visitors nearby loaded it in 2 seconds, but readers in Australia waited 7 seconds, because the data had to travel halfway around the planet.
His fix was a CDN, which stands for content delivery network. In plain terms, it keeps copies of your site on computers in many countries, so each visitor is served from one close to them, like having a local branch in every city.
Most hosts offer a free basic one:
— He turned on the free CDN setting.
— It spread copies of his images and pages worldwide in under an hour.
After: Australian readers loaded the site in about 2.5 seconds, almost three times faster.
In plain words: a CDN keeps copies of your site near every reader, so distant visitors get the same speed as your neighbors.
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How a reader made a US site fast for readers in Australia
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