Facebook Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Content delivery network (CDN) ==== Facebook uses its own [[content delivery network]] or "edge network" under the domain fbcdn.net for serving static data.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.fb.com/blog/2016/04/the-evolution-of-advanced-caching-in-the-facebook-cdn/|title=The Evolution of Advanced Caching in the Facebook CDN|date=April 7, 2016|access-date=May 20, 2020|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115184511/https://research.fb.com/blog/2016/04/the-evolution-of-advanced-caching-in-the-facebook-cdn/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation | last=Dwarakanath | first=Navya | title=What I Learned About How Facebook Infrastructure Serves Our Photos | date=August 12, 2019}}</ref> Until the mid-2010s, Facebook also relied on [[Akamai]] for CDN services.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.facebook.com/publications/an-analysis-of-facebook-photo-caching/|title=An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching β Meta Research|website=Meta Research|access-date=December 18, 2021|archive-date=December 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218093324/https://research.facebook.com/publications/an-analysis-of-facebook-photo-caching/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/85953/does-facebook-use-any-other-cdn-apart-from-akamai-encountered-fbcdn-net-subdoma|title=Does Facebook use any other CDN apart from Akamai? Encountered fbcdn.net subdomain that does not belong to Akamai|website=Web Applications Stack Exchange|access-date=May 20, 2020|archive-date=August 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811051533/https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/85953/does-facebook-use-any-other-cdn-apart-from-akamai-encountered-fbcdn-net-subdoma|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1=Farahbakhsh | first1=Reza | last2=Cuevas | first2=Angel | last3=Ortiz | first3=Antonio M. | last4=Han | first4=Xiao | last5=Crespi | first5=Noel | s2cid=7987529 | title=How far is Facebook from me? Facebook network infrastructure analysis | journal=IEEE Communications Magazine | publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |arxiv=1705.00717 | volume=53 | issue=9 | year=2015 | issn=0163-6804 | doi=10.1109/mcom.2015.7263357 | pages=134β142}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page