{"id":11132,"date":"2021-12-21T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph-internet.de\/more-performance-and-security-with-cloudflare\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:08:13","slug":"more-performance-and-security-with-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-internet.de\/en\/more-performance-and-security-with-cloudflare\/","title":{"rendered":"More performance and security with Cloudflare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First of all, we need to define the term “Content Delivery Network” (CDN). I’ll use the definition from Wikipedia here:“A content delivery network<\/strong>(CDN<\/strong>), also known as a content distribution network<\/strong>, is a network of regionally distributed servers<\/a> connected via the Internet<\/a>, which are used to deliver content – especially large media files. A CDN provides scalable storage and delivery capacities and ensures optimum data throughput even during high load peaks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

CDN<\/a> nodes are distributed across many locations and often also across many backbones<\/a>. They work together to serve requests from end<\/a> users for content as economically as possible. Individual locations are referred to as PoP(Point of Presence<\/a>) and consist of<\/em>s server clusters.<\/p>\n\n

In the background(transparent)<\/a>, the data is stored in the network(caching<\/a>) in such a way that the respective delivery is either as fast as possible(performance optimization<\/a>) or uses as little bandwidth as possible (cost optimization), or both at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Large CDNs maintain thousands of nodes with tens of thousands of servers.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Even if the performance of a website hosted by IONOS is sufficient for most customers, there is still a lot to be said for using a Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN):<\/p>\n\n