In this section, we will be briefly introduced to Content Delivery Network (CDN), reverse proxies, and the concept of database replication. Use of either or all of CDN, reverse proxies, or database replication is necessary when the application grows and receives a huge number of requests per second. A CDN is a huge set of servers that are deployed across multiple geographical locations. The purpose of a CDN is to deliver content to the end user from the nearest possible server. As an example, a website hosted in the US gets a request from a user in India. For this request to be complete, it will take a fair amount of time for the server in the US to process the response and send it over to the user in India. It would be easier if the content was housed close-by, so that the amount of time taken to complete the request will be shorter. CDNs help us solve this problem, where they would store static content on their servers and serve that content...
Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Free Chapter
CRUD Operations, Sorting, Filtering, and Joins
Advanced Programming with MariaDB
Advanced Programming with PHP
Setting Up Student Portal
Working with Files and Directories
Authentication and Access Control
Caching
Performance Optimization
Index
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