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Our Content Delivery Network
A content delivery network (CDN) makes your WordPress websites load faster, wherever your users are. A CDN isn’t a replacement for your web hosting: it’s an extra way to increase the speed of your site, globally.
- Dedicated and Secured Server for Your WordPress Website
- A Wide Range of Storage and Memory Options
- Simplicity, Scalability and Customization
- From 250Mbps to 2Gbps Bandwidth
WHAT ARE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS
How Our CDN Works
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is all about super charging the speed in which your WordPress website loads for all users, no matter where they are in the world.
This is done by saving (caching) copies of your website on servers at the network edge. For example, if your WordPress website is hosted at a UK data centre, there might be a delay if you try to access that site from the USA. So a copy of your website is stored on a server closer to the user, called a Point of Presence (POP).
Multiple copies of your website data are stored at different POPs throughout the world, so your site will load faster in remote places. This means people visiting your site will navigate more efficiently, wherever they are.
Not only is it good for users but search engines love speedy sites so this will also help with your SEO.
OUR GIFT TO YOU
Our Free CDN
A CDN can be crucial if you want your business or blog to have an international market. Our CDN offers the same edge caching features as some paid CDNs from other providers like Cloudflare.
While it has one-click activation, we give advanced users the option of development mode, and dynamic/custom cache settings – freedom to experiment.
You can purge the cache in one click to make instant updates. Unwanted visitors can simply be blocked by IP address or country.
How does a CDN work?
A CDN will store a copy of the public content from your website on servers around the world.
So instead of it being stored at one or two data centres, it’s stored at dozens. These data centres are located at key locations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. They’re the same data centres that used by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
So, if someone visits your website, they’ll receive the content from the data centre closest to them.
Why do I need a faster website?
A fast-loading website has lots of advantages:
• Your users are more likely to spend time on your website if everything loads quickly
• Mobile users and those on slow networks or expensive data plans will be catered-for
• Faster sites are given preferential treatment in Google, improving your SEO
How else can a CDN help me?
As well as improving performance, it also makes your website more stable. As there will be fewer network ‘hops’ from your user’s device to the data centre, there are likely to be any problems with the connection.
Is it complicated?
Not at all – you can activate the CDN in a click and then forget about it. But if you want to find out more, you can see detailed usage statistics and make granular customisations to how it works.
You can also use it to block users from particular locations.
Are there any limits?
No – unlike any other CDNs there are no bandwidth limits.
Website Optimisation
As part of our CDN we also give you tools to make your website faster. It does this by compressing and optimising the files that your website uses: images and code.
For images, it will:
• Compress them so the file size is smaller, without any visible loss of quality
• Resize them if they’re too large for the page
• Convert them to next-gen image formats
• Apply lazy loading, so images that can’t be seen won’t be loaded until they’re needed
For code, it will ‘minify’ it, stripping out white space and making the file sizes smaller, so your website will load quicker. It does all this automatically when it’s turned-on. You can use our ‘one-click optimisation’ to quickly give your website a speed boost, or go in to detail and tweak over 30 different options.
Try it out today – and see your Google Page Speed scores rise
PUT ON THE AFTERBURNERS
Accelerate your site with our CDN
Auto Image Resizing
Slow-loading images are a burden for of website performance. Our image CDN will scan your images and resize them for the appropriate size for mobile and desktop.
Image Compression
‘Raw’ images often contain information that can be removed or compressed without a visible loss in quality. Our CDN will compress your images ‘on the fly’, saving you time.
Lazy Loading
Load only what needs to be presented to the user immediately. Your content will appear in a browser more quickly by deferring off-screen images and non-critical resources.
Code Minification
Minify and strip whitespace from your code. Our CDN will compress HTML, CSS and JavaScript files to reduce time spent compiling and executing.
Image Formats
Our image optimisation tools will convert files to fast-loading next-gen image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP. Sites load faster and use less storage.
One-Click Optimisation
Give your site a performance boost on mobile and desktop with a single click. A simple risk-free solution that will give you better PageSpeed scores.