Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an excellent idea to speed up your website. Using CDN will definitely increase the speed of your website which will give better performance to end users and search engine bots as well. In the previous articles, I have told you that the speed of your website will affect the search engine ranking. Google and Yahoo have already stated that they will not allow slow loading websites in their search results, this is because they provide good content and browsing experience to their visitors. It is also our duty to ensure that the performance of the website is good. If you are using WordPress, this article is for you and will help you speed up your blog. content delivery network How to use content delivery network on shared hosting for WordPress.
The Content Delivery Network will parallelize downloads across hostnames, meaning that every time you request a web page, multiple sub-requests will be generated for images, scripts, CSS, etc. So it takes more time if you host all images, scripts, and CSS on one domain. Because after processing only the first request, another request will be processed. Therefore, it will slow down the loading time of the page. For that we use the content delivery network (CDN) to speed up downloads through hostnames. I’m not going to use a premium, third-party content delivery network setup. I am talking about making your own content delivery network with WordPress on shared hosting for free. Like I said, this will also increase your search engine rankings. How to Setup your own Content Delivery Network (CDN) on your Free Shared Hosting WordPress Blog:
We have many alternatives for CDN, you can use external CDN network, but it is cost effective, I think it costs $10 something for professional CDN services. Its performance is really good, it will improve the speed of your website by 20-30%. But if you can’t afford that amount, just choose to create your own CDN with existing WordPress blog domain using w3 total cache plugin. Follow these steps below to set up CDN on your blog with existing domain.
But before proceeding, you should back up all your My SQL database and Directory data. Remember that backing up is very important, if something goes wrong you can recover from backup, so don’t forget to back up. Here I don’t want to make any mess like the other sites that are taking completely confusing steps. I too got confused a lot before, but started working on it on my own and finally got it done.
Follow these steps below to configure the CDN with the W3 Total Cache plugin in WordPress:
1. We need to go through a step-by-step procedure to get things working properly, so first open your FTP client and log in with your domain FTP user account.
2. Now go to the domain home directory, after that if you have it. htaccess, please make it writable by granting 777 permissions temporarily.
3. Now open the wp-config file which is present in your home directory and paste the following code there. define(‘ENABLE_CACHE’, true);
4. The code above allows you to use the W3 Total Cache plugin. Now download WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin.
5. Extract the zipped directory and upload the w3 total cache folder to /wp-content/plugins directory, now login to your WordPress dashboard and activate the w3 total cache plugin.
6. Now login to your hosting control panel and create a subdomain named cdn. Your domain. com, after you log in to your domain FTP account, you will now see two domains, the first one is the root domain and the second one is the subdomain.
7. Go to your root domain and download the wp-content folder to your local machine.
8. Now open your subdomain directory on the FTP and upload the wp-content directory.
9. Almost the hosting side and server side work is done, now it’s time for the configuration part in the W3 Total cache in WordPress.
10. Go to the WordPress Settings tab, select W3 Total Cache, and in the General Settings tab, now enable the Page Cache feature and Select Disk Enhanced Method.
11. Now select the minimize option and select the disk method. Only use the disk method if you use shared hosting, in case you have a dedicated or VPS type plan then you can use the different methods.
12. And select your Content Delivery Network (CDN) as Self Hosting/File Transfer Protocol Upload.
13. In the page cache settings, select the compression method as Gzip and Deflate, this will reduce the size of your page and load it faster. Save the configuration.
14. Now go to CDN Settings and select Host active theme files, you can use themes and even wp-include files as well. But using wp-include files sometime gives errors.
15. After that, select Force overwrite of existing files and click Save changes.
16. Now you can see the FTP settings below it. There you need to provide the FTP settings of your web hosting, first your host name, your hosting FTP username and password.
17. Provide the FTP path as /cdn. Your domain. com. And provide Replace site hostname with cdn. Your domain. com. Please see the image below.
18. Now click Save Changes, then try to Empty All Cache, this will create a new Cache page with all the changes made.
19. Now just try to open your website, you can see a dramatically improved website. This works for me, and I’m sure it will work for you too.
any problem please send me arafath[at]solvater.com. Implementing this idea is very essential because it will increase your ranking and visibility in search engines.
