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Using a CDN to speed up your website

Optimizing your CDN

Just like anything else in the website world, CDN services can be managed and optimized (and combined with browser cacheing) but that’s a topic for another blog. Bottom line: if you are not using CDN services to speed up your website then you have room for improvement.

Maybe you’re already running your website on super-fast, expensive web servers so it’s not that relevant to you. For most of us hosting our websites on ‘shared’ servers (i.e. sharing the server with up to millions of other website owners) it is immensely relevant and important. A matter of life and death. Well, almost…

If your website speed is not impressive, use a CDN. It’s your first line of attack on a slow website speed. If you need some help with that then the contact form below is for you.

Owner of Smart Web Designs (SA)

About The Author

I am Tobie Schalkwyk. I have been in IT Development from the days of XT and AT PC’s and I’ve spent the last 23 years of my corporate career in the building of an online banking website for one of SA’s major banks – a website that was rewarded numerous international awards as the best online banking system on the globe.

I now spend most of my effort in online digital marketing and WordPress website development. If you would like to follow my blogs – or you need to optimize your website / you need any other website services, kindly leave your contact details below and I will get in touch with you.

Hope to chat to you soon!     

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