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What Is a CDN? How It Works and Website Benefits

25 October 2024

A CDN can deliver cached content closer to visitors and reduce load on your hosting server. Explore how it works, its performance and security benefits, and the costs and cache-management trade-offs.

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What Is a Data Center? Its Role in Web Hosting

25 October 2024

Data centers house the equipment behind web hosting. Explore their infrastructure, common facility types and the reliability, security and performance questions to ask a hosting provider.

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What Is SSD Hosting? Benefits and Limitations

25 October 2024

SSD hosting can reduce storage delays for database-driven websites. Explore how it compares with HDD hosting, where its benefits matter, and why caching, backups, and server resources still count.

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