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Ricardo Franco
How CDN improves security?

Ricardo Franco

Nov 23, 2023

CDNs help improve the performance, reliability, and security of websites and web services by distributing the load among multiple servers and serving content from the server closest to the user.

How distributing the load among multiple servers can improve the security of websites?

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Uma Maheswaran M
Uma Maheswaran M2 years ago

I guess it helps to cope up with DDOS attacks, cmiiw

Design Gurus
Design Gurus2 years ago

One of the primary security benefits is the mitigation of DDoS attacks. By distributing traffic across a network of servers, CDNs can absorb and disperse the massive volumes of traffic that come with a DDoS attack. This dispersion makes it much harder for these attacks ...

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