How CDN works| System Design

CDN (content delivery network) is good to know for System Design interview. How it can help improve website performance, reduce load times, enhance user experience and the significance of understanding it in the context of your system design interviews.

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers that work together to deliver web content to users based on their geographic location. By caching website content on multiple servers, a CDN can reduce the distance between users and the servers hosting the content, resulting in faster load times and a more seamless browsing experience.

List of popular CDN (Content Delivery Network) providers:

Amazon CloudFront
Cloudflare
Akamai
Google Cloud CDN
Fastly
Max CDN
Limelight Networks
StackPath
Microsoft Azure CDN
CDN77
KeyCDN

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So is this the case for most modern websites? Where the call goes to CDN load balancer. If yes then how do we setup CDN load balancers.