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Do I Need A CDN (Content Delivery Network) Service For My Site To Speed It Up?
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) can significantly improve the page load speed of your website if:
[a] your site uses a lot of images, especially large images, and,
[b] your normal visitor base is international.
For example, if you have a website about digital photography and feature many high quality, large image files, a CDN service makes a lot of sense. In that scenario, your images would be served from the CDN and the rest of your website from your normal hosting provider e.g. WPX Hosting.
The same applies if your site audience is very international as images will be loaded from a server closest to the visitor's location, not from where the normal website is hosted.
Here are some of the most popular CDN providers compared by price:
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| CDN Provider | KeyCDN | MaxCDN | Amazon Cloudfront | Cloudflare |
| Starting Price | $0.04 (per GB) | $9/month | $0.085 (per GB) | Free |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited* | Up to 1TB | Unlimited* | Unlimited |
| Pricing | Pricing | Pricing | Pricing |
* The price is based on your monthly bandwidth usage, the more you use, the cheaper it gets.
Regardless of which CDN service you use, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, MaxCDN, KeyCDN etc, we can handle the technical integration for you free of charge if your site is hosted with us.
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