How to Speedup Drupal with a CDNDrupal is a free and easy to use software package, powerful enough to handle even the most complex of websites. Despite Drupal's flexibility, it is still important to make sure that the site Drupal is powering, performs in the best possible way. One of the easiest things to do to improve Drupal site loading times and performance is to implement a CDN (Content Delivery Network) on the site.
Drupal CDN ModulesThere are a couple of Drupal CDN Modules available to ease implementation of a Content Delivery Network on your Drupal site, but the best supported and one we recommend is Wim Leers Drupal CDN Module: http://drupal.org/project/cdn.
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Why Use a CDN with Drupal?
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) accelerates Drupal websites by serving static files such as images, javascript and css from edge servers located closer to the end-user. Edge servers are strategically located in datacenters around the world, enabling a visitor to download the necessary assets of a website faster based on the closer geographic proximity of the CDN's edge servers. A faster website has also been shown to increase page views, conversion rates and a website's revenue simply by lowering the time it takes to for a visitor to load the page.
Content Delivery Network (CDN) Explained
"A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. 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 bottlenecks near that server." -Wikipedia