Speed Up Your Website with a CDN (Beginner's Guide) Speed Up Your Website with a CDN (Beginner's Guide)

Have you ever waited forever for a website to load? 🐌 It’s frustrating, right? And guess what? It’s not just annoying for you – it can also hurt your website’s popularity on search engines like Google!
But don’t worry, there’s a solution: a Content Delivery Network, or CDN for short.

What’s a CDN?
Think of a CDN as a team of super-fast delivery drivers for your website. 🦸‍♂️ Instead of all your website’s pictures, videos, and other stuff coming from one place (which can be slow if someone is far away), a CDN has copies of your website stored in lots of different places around the world.
So, when someone visits your site, the CDN automatically sends them the stuff from the closest location. This means your website loads way faster for everyone, no matter where they are! 🚀

Why is a CDN awesome?
    Blazing-fast website: Nobody likes waiting, so a faster website makes people happy (and more likely to stick around!).
    Super security: CDNs help protect your website from bad guys trying to cause trouble. 🛡️
    SEO boost: Search engines like Google love fast websites, so using a CDN can help your site rank higher in search results.

We’ve got your back with our CDN
At Silvertoad, we make it easy to get all these benefits. If you host your website with us or sign up for one of our SEO plans, you automatically get access to our awesome CDN.

We also offer a Premium CDN service, which offers:
– Always on display (if your website goes down, any visitors will see the last active cached version of your website, and won’t encounter any downtime)
– Cache management
– Accelerated mobile pages
– Image and file optimisation to further increase site speed
– Further security including a website-specific firewall & content sniffing protection

Ready to make your website super speedy and secure?
Get in touch with us today, and let’s chat about how we can help! 😊