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Rare card · Science
Content delivery network, a Rare card
A content delivery network or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and corresponding data centers.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Content delivery network quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Content delivery network card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
CDNs are a layer in the ______ ecosystem.
Answer
internet. CDNs are a layer in the internet ecosystem. From the Content delivery network article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Inner product space. Inner product space 78 · Content delivery network 75 · Age of the universe 71 · Laniakea Supercluster 64 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- CDNs provide high availability and performance by distributing content geographically closer to end users, and arose in the late 1990s to alleviate the performance bottlenecks of the Internet as it was becoming a critical medium.
- Since then, CDNs have grown to serve a large portion of Internet content, including text, graphics and scripts, downloadable objects, applications, live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social media services.
- CDNs are a layer in the internet ecosystem.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Content delivery network article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Content delivery network
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Content delivery network in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Laniakea SuperclusterRare · Science · ATK 64 DEF 66
- WyvernRare · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 65
- Buffalo wingRare · Society · ATK 66 DEF 64
- Inner product spaceRare · Science · ATK 78 DEF 52
- Charlie WardUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 58
- Chlorophytum comosumUncommon · Nature · ATK 63 DEF 67
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Content delivery network (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Д.Ильин : vectorization, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
