[Tfug] Web server names

[Zack Breckenridge]

Err - I meant Content *Delivery* :)

- Zack

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Zack Breckenridge <zbrdge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I think that usually means "Content Distribution Network".
> Akamai, for example, comes to mind. Usually, I think of a CDN as
> serving up larger (though still "static") files from the nearest
> available location to the requesting user. So, obviously there will be
> multiple DNS records associated with a 'cdn' name. Their web server(s)
> will also probably be configured as caching web servers, caching the
> most oft-requested files in memory, etc.
>
> - Zack
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> CDN - Content Delivery Network?
>>
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>> On Jan 21, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A trivial? question -- for the right person!  :>
>>
>> I often see web sites served with a group of hosts (ignoring
>> the ad services, etc.).  Usually names like "<foo>static" and
>> "<foo>cdn", etc.
>>
>> I figure the "static" host probably pushes out invariant
>> stuff -- things that can be "blindly"/"mindlessly" served
>> (unscripted, etc.).
>>
>> No idea what "cdn" is intended to signify/abbreviate but it
>> turns up in lots of names.
>>
>> Anyone care to shed some light on this?
>>
>> Thx,
>> --don
>>
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