What is a CDN?

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that makes your static content (images, CSS, Javascript) much faster.

It’s a collection of servers located all around the world. When a browser loads static content, the request is automatically routed to a server physically closest to the browser. This makes the content load much faster. Because there are many servers everywhere, it also makes your site impervious to bursts of traffic, because the burst is spread out over literally hundreds of servers.

WP Engine automatically puts all your static content on a CDN. We manage distributing the content, rewriting URLs in the HTML, giving you control over enabling or disable the CDN temporarily, and technical support.

In short, you just write your blog as usual and we transparently make your blog faster and more scalable.

Enjoy!

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