Do you use a CDN?

[harrygreen90]

Beyond just paying for good hosting package like Cloud or a dedicated server. Do you use a CDN for your shared or VPS to try to optimize your website load faster and to serve your visitors better or prevent from any ddos attacks?
If so what CDN do you use and how happy are you with it?

 

[virtubox]

I have tried MaxCDN and KeyCDN but I haven't notice a big impact on my website performances.
So currently I only use Cloudflare with the free CDN included and the loading speed are really good.

If your website is light and doesn't load heavy assets such as HQ pictures or CSS animation, you will have better results with cloudflare because it doesn't have to create extra http requests to be used as a CDN. It's only a proxy and it will cache your assets. So if you are looking to a way to optimize your website, you should go with Cloudflare.

 

[EpicGlobalWeb]

EpicGlobalWeb

Are you saying that CloudFlare will save load times on large HQ images? I have that problem right now trying to solve it the easy way.

 

[virtubox]

virtubox

Cloudflare will make your website loading faster and will cache your small assets. For large HQ images -> KeyCDN, MaxCDN
Small tips for KeyCDN, you can have 250GB free trial if you register from the keycdn.com/blog/

 

[UWH-David]

Beyond just paying for good hosting package like Cloud or a dedicated server. Do you use a CDN for your shared or VPS to try to optimize your website load faster and to serve your visitors better or prevent from any ddos attacks?
If so what CDN do you use and how happy are you with it?

Absolutely. MaxCDN. Excellent when most your site is static, a great reason to build out a site in html5 instead of WordPress when possible. CDN allows for loading your site much faster further away from the server. If your website has a worldwide presence it is a highly recommended solution.

 

[HostLittle]

I have been using Cloudflare for websites for many years and have no complaints.

 

[SenseiSteve]

I use Cloudflare and haven't had any issues with it to date.

 

[crazycoder]

I use cloudflare and have no complaints yet. MaxCDN also seems promising

 

[Shimei]

I use Cloudflare Pro which increased performance by lowering the page load time by near 4 seconds. Here's the result of using Cloudflare. As you can see avg page load time is 2.0 seconds. I doubt it gets "much" better than that:

 

[anhbloginc]

Currently, I'm using Amazon CloudFront as CDN and there's nothing to complaint about it at all. So far so good.

 

[Devin Holdcraft]

Devin Holdcraft

Is Amazon CloudFront free? how if compared to Cloudflare? why you don't use Cloudflare as CDN for your website.
I am using free Cloudlfare for my websites but sometimes its getting errors while my web hosting is running as well.

 

[HostLittle]

HostLittle

Try using page rules to stop cloudflare performance /caching for problem like JavaScript errors

 

[Waqass]

Waqass

Yes would love to hear the comparison and is it free?

 

[vishwa]

I am recently started using Cloudflare for my blog. The result is very positive. I can see the improvements in my blog speed and performance. It increase my blog security and loading times. I am very happy to use it.

 

[Colombiawebs]

good day

Try Maxcdn and Cloudflare and they are good

I am currently with cdn77 and it is excellent

Between these two options my final choice

Cdn77.com

Blessings

 

[Knightrider]

I use Max Cdn. I feel is as good as your hosting company. If you have a very bad hosting companies, it wont help you with very good CDN. There should be a balance between your hosting and CDN.

 

[postcd]

I think that commercial CDN is waste of money, unless you have realy huge traffic and big data.
The improvement of page load speed is not that significant for me to pay that money.
Currently i am using free Cloudflare CDN and quite happy with that.
PS: i used MaxCDN and stopped being happy witht hem. Suddenly high prices.

 

[Russiantranslator]

I used Cloudflare, but switched to Amazon CloudFront. And I am very happy with their service. And it is almost free.

 

[Purres]

Purres

How Amazon CloudFront can compare with Cloudflare, I am using Cloudflare for my websites and they loads fast for me but never tried Amazon CloudFront before.
It would be great if I hear your reviews about this service

 

[Russiantranslator]

Russiantranslator

I use W3 Total Cache plugin, created Amazon cloudfront account and added it to W3 total cache settings.

 

[chiru77]

I am using cloudflare to improve my website speed but there one problem that I can not use any popup plugin.

 

[virtubox]

virtubox

Issues with javascript are caused by Cloudflare Rocket loader, make sure Rocket loader is disabled in your Cloudflare dashboard :

 

[Daniel Cortes]

I use cloudflare and it helps to speed up my sites.

 

[schttrj]

I have tried the following:
KeyCDN
MaxCDN
Cloudflare (free)
CDN77
Stackpath CDN

I will have to say that Cloudflare didn't result in any loading speed bump for my website whereas Stackpath is the best for WordPress sites IMO.

 

[Daniel Cortes]

I speed tested my site and pages before activating all of the tools with cloudflare and there was a notable increase in page load speed with it.

 

[shiju]

I use Cloudflare, their service is good. But recently a global network failure reported and effected their network too. For getting DDos protection and monitoring is more efficient.