CDN and Website Optimisation 🚀
Boost your website's performance, reliability, and security with our built-in Content Delivery Network (CDN) and optimization tools.
What is a CDN? 🌐
A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a system of servers distributed around the world. When a user visits a website, the CDN delivers the website's content from the server closest to the user. This significantly improves website loading speeds and overall performance.
CDNs are used by a wide range of websites, including large e-commerce sites, social media platforms, and streaming services. They are also used by governments and businesses to improve the performance of their websites.
Benefits of Using a CDN 🌟
CDNs deliver content from the server closest to the user, significantly improving loading speeds.
Provides a backup copy of your website's content, ensuring higher uptime.
Lowers bandwidth requirements, helping to reduce overall hosting costs.
Offers an additional layer of protection against DDoS attacks.
How Does a CDN Work? 🔧
A CDN stores a copy of your website's public content on servers around the world. Instead of being stored at one or two data centers, it's distributed across dozens. These data centers are located at key locations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. They're the same data centers used by industry giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
When someone visits your website, they receive the content from the data center closest to them, ensuring faster load times and improved user experience.
Why Do I Need a Faster Website? ⏱️
A fast-loading website offers numerous advantages:
- 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 have a better experience
- Faster sites are given preferential treatment in Google, improving your SEO
Additional CDN Benefits 🎁
Beyond improving performance, a CDN also enhances your website's stability. With fewer network 'hops' from your user's device to the data center, there are likely to be fewer problems with the connection.
Is it complicated? 🤔
Not at all! You can activate the CDN with a single click and then forget about it. If you want to dive deeper, you can access detailed usage statistics and make granular customizations. You can even use it to block users from particular locations.
Are there any limits? 🚫
Unlike other CDNs, there are no bandwidth limits with Hostwoody's CDN. You can use it as much as you need without worrying about additional costs.
Website Optimisation 🛠️
As part of our CDN, we provide tools to make your website even faster. These tools compress and optimize the files your website uses, including images and code.
Compresses and resizes images, converts to next-gen formats, and applies lazy loading.
Strips out white space and reduces file sizes for faster loading times.
One-click optimization to quickly improve your website's speed and Google PageSpeed scores.
Our optimization tools work automatically when turned on. You can use our 'one-click optimisation' to quickly boost your website's speed, or dive into the details and tweak over 30 different options. Use these tweaks and watch your Google PageSpeed scores rise!