Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a great 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 the content delivery network on shared hosting for WordPress.

Content Delivery Network will parallelize downloads across hostnames, which means that every time you request a web page, multiple subrequests will be generated for the 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. So it will slow down the page loading time. For that we use the content delivery network (CDN) to speed up downloads through hostnames. I am not going to use a premium, external content delivery network setup. I’m 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 Set Up Your Own Content Delivery Network (CDN) on Your Free Shared Hosting WordPress Blog:

We have many alternatives for CDN, you can use external CDN, but it’s cost-effective, I think it’s $10 something for professional CDN services. Its performance is really good, it will improve your website speed by 20-30%. But if you can’t afford that amount, just choose to create your own CDN with the existing WordPress blog domain using the w3 total cache plugin. Follow these steps below to set up the CDN on your blog with the existing domain.

But before you go any further, you need to make a backup of all your MySQL database and directory data. Remember that making a backup is very important, if something goes wrong, you can recover it from the backup, so don’t forget to make a backup. Here I don’t want to make any mess like the other sites that are taking completely confusing steps. I got confused a lot earlier too, but I started working on it on my own and finally did it.

Follow these steps below to configure the CDN with the W3 Total Cache plugin in WordPress:

1. We need to follow a step by step procedure for things to work properly, so first open your FTP client and login 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 above code allows you to use the W3 Total Cache plugin. Now download the WordPress W3 Total Cache Plugin.

5. Extract the zipped directory and upload the w3 total cache folder to the /wp-content/plugins directory, now log into your WordPress dashboard and activate the w3 total cache plugin.

6. Now login to your hosting control panel and create a subdomain with the name cdn. Your domain. com, after logging into your domain FTP account, now you will see two domains, the first is the root domain and the second is the subdomain.

7. Go to your root domain and download the wp-content folder on your local machine.

8. Now open your subdomain directory in 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 on the W3 Total cache in WordPress.

10. Go to the WordPress settings tab, select W3 Full 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. Use only the disk method if you use shared hosting, in case you have a VPS or dedicated 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 page cache settings select compression method like Gzip and Deflate, this will reduce your page size and load faster. Save the settings.

14. Now go to CDN Settings and select Host active theme files, you can use themes and even wp-include files too. But using wp-include files sometime gives errors.

15. After that, select Force overwrite existing files and click Save Changes.

16. Now you can see the FTP settings under it. There you need to provide the FTP settings of your web hosting, first your hostname, 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 Clear 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.