From the course: HTML and CSS: Linking
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Content delivery networks
- [Instructor] Certain resources on your website tend to be used over and over. These include videos, images, JavaScript files, and more. The larger those resources are, the longer they take to download and use. Furthermore, the farther away geographically someone is from the physical server location, the longer these resources take to load. If you have a regular or basic web hosting service, your website is located in one geographic place. That may be absolutely fine if you don't have a ton of traffic in general, or if your website is for a local audience. There's absolutely nothing wrong with old-school hosting for the right kind of website. It's been around for 30 years for a reason. And let's face it. The vast majority of websites for small businesses, consultants, Girl Scout troops, bowling leagues, and more are just fine on this type of hosting. However, if you have an international audience or if you're serving up lots of images, videos, CSS, JavaScript, and more, and if you…
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