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Loveleen Kaur
Loveleen Kaur

Reputation: 993

Does using a CDN increase load on the database or web server?

Does using a CDN increase load on the database or Web server? If yes, then why and how?

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Thilo
Thilo

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Given the same amount of traffic, it should relieve your web server, but probably has no impact on your database server.

On the other hand, if the higher bandwidth from the CDN makes more people come to your site, maybe it will actually increase the load. But I suppose that is a good thing, then.

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Piskvor left the building
Piskvor left the building

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No, quite the opposite. To quote Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network (incidentally, the first result from a search for "CDN"):

A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottleneck near that server.

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