Content Distribution Network Powerful, Global & Free
Give your sites a performance boost wherever your users are in the world. Configure edge-caching and 40+ speed optimization settings. Included free with all packages.
Content Distribution Network Explained
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is all about making a website load faster for all users, wherever they are in the world.
This is done by storing (caching) copies of your website on servers at the network edge. For example, if your website is hosted at a US data center, there might be a delay if you try to access that site from the UK. 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 site’s data are stored at different POPs throughout the world, so your site will load faster in remote places. Your users will navigate your site more efficiently, wherever they are.
While it's good for users, the CDN has other advantages. Search engines love fast-loading sites so there’s an SEO benefit to having a CDN.
Let's Explore the CDN Features... Edge Caching Image Optimization Block Visitors Traffic Distribution CDN Statistics Purge Cache Development Mode Security Headers
Edge Caching.
By deploying servers around the world, it means that you have the option of serving both static and dynamic elements of your website closer to your visitors. You have full control over this and also have the option of completely disabling this if required.
Global Edge Caching
We automatically cache static content at our edge, ensuring rapid delivery of Images, JavaScript and CSS files to all your visitors around the world and you can control how long we store this content.
If you've updated your website and want to ensure all users are seeing the latest content before the cache expires, you can also run an instant Cache Purge. The more content you cache, the faster your website will load.
Dynamic Cache
Our Dynamic Cache provides the ability to cache any resource at our edge by using public Cache-Control and Expires headers. Once enabled, you can start storing content in this cache by configuring your application to emit those headers. Any responses that contain a cookie will not be cached.
Combined with StackCache, this gives you full page dynamic content caching ensuring rapid TTFB times for all resources regardless of visitor location. Advanced users can check the output of the X-CDN-Cache-Status header to see whether a resource was cached.
Custom Cache Settings
Customize a number of Edge Caching options best for your site.
Image Cache - Set how long we should store images at our edge.
CSS Cache - Set how long we should store stylesheets and fonts at our edge.
JavaScript Cache - Set how long we should store JavaScript files at our edge.
Purge Cache
At any time you can clear all cached files which will force all edge servers to fetch fresh copies from your site. Purging the cache may temporarily degrade performance for your website. Why would I need to Purge? If you have made changes to your site and you wanted to see the changes reflected immediately then you may need to purge the cache. However, our CDN will fetch your sites for you every hour to make sure the freshest content is served.
Development Mode
You can temporarily disable all caching to allow you to complete development tasks on the website without worrying about cached data. Caching is then automatically re-enabled after a period of 3 hours.
Web Optimization.
Use our Web Optimization suite to automatically apply web performance best practices to optimize your website and improve your page speed. All of our optimization tools are flagged by a “Risk” factor – Low Risk, Medium Risk and High Risk.
If you are unsure which tools to enable, we offer a One-click Optimization which applies the most popular optimization filters that should help improve page loading times without risking website functionality.
- Collapse Whitespace
- Combine Heads
- Convert Meta Tag
- Elide Attributes
- Extend Cache
- Extend Cache PDFs
- Hint Resource Preloading
- Pre-Resolve DNS
- Remove Comments
- Remove Quotes
- Trim URLs
- Convert to WEBP Animated
- Convert to WEBP lossless
- Deduplicate Inline Images
- Inline Images
- Inline Preview Images
- Insert Image Dimensions
- Lazy load Images
- Optimize Images
- Recompress Images
- Resize Images
- Resize Mobile Images
- Resize Rendered Image Dimensions
- Responsive Images
- Sprite Images
- Move CSS Above Scripts
- Combine CSS
- Fallback Rewrite CSS URLs
- Flatten CSS Imports
- Inline CSS
- Inline Google Font CSS
- Move CSS To head
- Prioritize Critical CSS
- Rewrite CSS
- Canonicalize JavaScript Libraries
- Combine JavaScript
- Defer JavaScript
- Include JavaScript Source Maps
- Inline JavaScript
- Minify JavaScript
Block Visitors
Reduce Spam, Stop Unwanted Visitors
Our CDN allows you to block IP addresses, entire subnets or even whole countries. Automatically select a country from a dropdown list to block all IP addresses from that country (relies on GeoIP IP address data).
Global CDN Statistics.
Monitor traffic to your sites across our CDN (Content Delivery Network), showing bandwidth, hits, SSL hits, errors and geographic distribution.
CDN Statistics
Select to view the statistics over a time period of the Last 24 Hours, Last 30 Days or the Last 12 Months.
Total Bandwidth
Total Hits
Cache Hit Rate
Bandwidth vs Hits
SSL Hits vs Non-SSL Hits
HTTP Successful Requests vs Error Requests
Traffic Distribution
Select to view the traffic distribution over a time period of the Last Hour, Last Day or the Last Week.
Global representation of traffic sources and distribution
View Top Countries accessing your sites
Breakdown by either Bandwidth or Hits
Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) stores your website at data centers around the world - for a faster website, globally.
North America
- Ashburn
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- New York
- Seattle
Europe
- Amsterdam
- Frankfurt
- London
- Madrid
- Reading
- Paris
Asia & Oceania
- Hong Kong
- Mumbai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tokyo
Africa
- Johannesburg
South America
- Sāo Paulo
Content Distribution Network FAQs
Integrating your website into the CDN will bring many advantages for your traffic and conversion rates. The Content Distribution Network speeds up your site and brings content closer to your visitors, regardless of their location in the world, by replicating it on multiple servers. The information is sent faster and latency time (which can be very long for users located on other continents) is significantly reduced. CDN gives your site a real competitive edge, by enhancing performance and improving improve your search engine ranking as a result.
We provide our CDN at no extra charge and it is included an all hosting packages across all of our platforms. Other providers might try to sell it as an extra – we include it!
We currently utilise an exclusive number of very well connected datacentres in Northern America and across Europe – These exclusive POPs are usually used by transit providers and hence provide the very best latency using the smallest number of POPs. We essentially pay the premium to place hardware directly in “carrier hotels” and neutral datacentres that all traffic from a region will traverse through.
No. Due to our highly configurable CDN and Web Optimization suite you have full control to enable/disable those features you want to use and take advantage of. The more features you enable, the faster your sites will be!
No. As per all of our packages, we offer unlimited bandwidth when both utilizing our CDN or with this turned off. You will not receive any unexpected traffic bills.
