Which cdn providers are you guys using?

Hey everyone,What cdn is eveyone using here?

I am using Wordpress with digital ocean as my hosting with the basic droplet of 5$/month,What cdn do you suggest for my situation?

Cloudflare.

Yeah, cloudflare.

Cloudflare for DNS only, combined with BunnyCDN with PermaCache function works well for me.

RoiBox said:

Cloudflare for DNS only, combined with BunnyCDN with PermaCache function works well for me.

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So you use both and what plan for Cloudflare,paid or free?

Free Cloudflare

Razentyler said:

So you use both and what plan for Cloudflare,paid or free?

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As I said, I use Cloudflare FREE version for DNS only, not proxified, their DNS is great for free DNS management and DNS speed around the world, then I use BunnyCDN only as CDN.

Free Cloudfare.

BunnyCDN

I use BunnyCDN.

Cloudways AKA Stackpath.

Free cloudflare plan

I have rates as little as .005 per GB... Here are some CDN tips.
What Does CDN Do?
In the most basic sense, the CDN you’re using takes your company’s content and physically puts it closer to the user. According to research, your content should be delivered to your users within half a second, as anything that takes longer than that gets penalized by search engines and loses viewers due to “slow load”. So, if your CDN isn’t running as efficiently as possible, then you’re losing money.

Things To Watch Out For With CDN’s
There are a few things to always look out for when signing on with a CDN, and one of them is that you should always read the fine print. One underhanded trick that some lawyers put into CDN contracts: auto-renewal. It’s not going to be blatantly in front of you, so read through the contract thoroughly. If you’re not happy with your service, and it auto-renews for a year before you can cancel it, the chances of you getting your money back are slim to none.

CDN’s Can Drop You Like A Bad Habit
Working within the adult industry, you get used to dealing with people being a bit judgmental from time to time. Unfortunately, that also applies to companies working with you as well. CDN’s have been known to send their clients packing once they were alerted to adult content being distributed. In some cases, such drops are argumented. If CDN locations include those where adult content is prohibited, it is very important to either ensure that those pops aren’t active, or if that is not possible – to choose an adult industry friendly CDN provider.

Draining Your Resources
We’ve had clients in the past that came with some real horror stories of bad CDN relationships. One of them was getting massively overcharged because their provider was making content get repetitively downloaded from their origin, when it didn’t have to be. This caused higher costs for the company, and wasn’t distributing their content nearly as quickly as it should have. Their sigh of relief was palpable, once we came in and fixed the problem. The origin server is the primary central location where your content is held and the efficacy of your content distribution relies heavily upon the CDN doing its job of relieving the origin server from incessantly serving the same content to the CDN.

IBM cloud and Akamai

Stackpath is good

rajkumar31 said:

Free Cloudflare

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yeah

I've done extensive research on CDN providers.
At the end of 2019, I made the decision to abandon Wordpress, and only build Static Sites.

So, I had to figure-out which CDN providers were the best investments.
It's somewhat depends on your use-case, as most companies are overpriced, or are geared toward specialty scenarios.

I was telling my buddy, Jeremy, about some of the research I was doing, at that time, and he asked me to look into this stuff for South Africa. (his target market)
That's a special use-case, because actually a lot of the CDNs don't even have a presence, there, so I made this detailed spreadsheet for him, which includes an SA column that notates POPs specifically for South Africa, in addition to a lot of other generic information:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X70ps-RzooWeMb8Mkl_clRJ30XvNSezG1Jr0U61Ki1w/edit#gid=0
(it might have mistakes or gaps, but still lots of good insights, here, at-a-glance)

Ultimately, I think it comes down to POPs (points of presence), and price.
Here's my personal top favorites list:

1. Cloudflare (fastest dns, free bandwidth, and my ultimate pick) - 150'ish POPs
   This is my best static site method, which I use for sites:
2. BunnyCDN (requires external DNS, like Cloudflare, but has the most flexible edge controls on the market, and a very pleasant UI) - 40'ish POPS
   This is my static site method for this service:
3. Azure (their pricing page doesn't accurately show the prices... you gotta look in the backend)
   You can also get access to "Akamai", or whatever it's called, through Azure or IBM CDN, and it's got much bigger POPs than all the other CDN combined, but more expensive, I guess.
4. Runkod (not sure if this does deployment, now, but it's worth mentioning. It's decentralized, and might be the future for static sites.)
5. Netlify (technically they combine some major cloud CDN providers)

There's probably even more out-there, now, but the major players will probably continue to be who they are for many years to come.
Like I said, earlier, my favorite combination is Azure Buckets with Cloudflare as my DNS and CDN provider.

Not sure your use-case, but mine is static sites, and I'm sure you'll find something viable from all this information, anyways.
Best to you!

getivan said:

I've done extensive research on CDN providers.
At the end of 2019, I made the decision to abandon Wordpress, and only build Static Sites.

So, I had to figure-out which CDN providers were the best investments.
It's somewhat depends on your use-case, as most companies are overpriced, or are geared toward specialty scenarios.

I was telling my buddy, Jeremy, about some of the research I was doing, at that time, and he asked me to look into this stuff for South Africa. (his target market)
That's a special use-case, because actually a lot of the CDNs don't even have a presence, there, so I made this detailed spreadsheet for him, which includes an SA column that notates POPs specifically for South Africa, in addition to a lot of other generic information:
Ivan's List of SA CDNs for Jeremy
(it might have mistakes or gaps, but still lots of good insights, here, at-a-glance)

Ultimately, I think it comes down to POPs (points of presence), and price.
Here's my personal top favorites list:

1. Cloudflare (fastest dns, free bandwidth, and my ultimate pick) - 150'ish POPs
   This is my best static site method, which I use for sites:
2. BunnyCDN (requires external DNS, like Cloudflare, but has the most flexible edge controls on the market, and a very pleasant UI) - 40'ish POPS
   This is my static site method for this service:
3. Azure (their pricing page doesn't accurately show the prices... you gotta look in the backend)
   You can also get access to "Akamai", or whatever it's called, through Azure or IBM CDN, and it's got much bigger POPs than all the other CDN combined, but more expensive, I guess.
4. Runkod (not sure if this does deployment, now, but it's worth mentioning. It's decentralized, and might be the future for static sites.)
5. Netlify (technically they combine some major cloud CDN providers)

There's probably even more out-there, now, but the major players will probably continue to be who they are for many years to come.
Like I said, earlier, my favorite combination is Azure Buckets with Cloudflare as my DNS and CDN provider.

Not sure your use-case, but mine is static sites, and I'm sure you'll find something viable from all this information, anyways.
Best to you!

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I want to use it for Wordpress Website,What will you suggest?

Should I go with bunnycdn and Cloudflare or Cloudflare's free/paid plan?
Also what is your suggestion about stackpath?

Closte + Wordpress = Love

I just use the free Cloudflare for my sites but I'm going to look at BunnyCDN after the recommendations on this thread