
CDN vs Web Hosting: What Each Does for Your Website
Compare origin hosting and distributed delivery through practical static-site, CMS, and application examples, with a clear process for choosing a setup.
Understand the relationship between an origin, a content delivery network, and the people visiting your website. Start here before comparing features or changing DNS.
Start by identifying where the original content lives, then follow a request through delivery and caching. These articles use that distinction to make architecture choices easier to discuss.

Compare origin hosting and distributed delivery through practical static-site, CMS, and application examples, with a clear process for choosing a setup.

Follow a request from browser to edge and origin, then learn which content is safe to cache and what to verify before expanding CDN coverage.