What is the difference between DDoS protection and CDN (Content Delivery Network)?

While both DDoS protection and CDNs enhance website performance and security, they serve different purposes. A CDN caches your website's content closer to users, reducing latency. DDoS protection focuses on mitigating malicious traffic floods that aim to overwhelm your server. Cloudflare offers both, providing comprehensive security and performance optimization. A CDN doesn't inherently protect against DDoS attacks, but can improve resilience by distributing traffic across multiple servers.