SiteGround CDN replaces Cloudflare faster and stronger

SiteGround CDN is a cdn acceleration service launched by SiteGround. It is used to provide more convenience for SiteGround virtual host users to speed up the website.

1、 Why SiteGround CDN

Previous SiteGround vs Cloudflare Cooperate to launch cdn service and provide free built-in cdn functions to speed up user websites. This third-party service requires additional settings and parameter configurations, which involve multiple convenience factors: DNS modification, mandatory https Cookie cleaning and other technical knowledge. In addition, various problems will be encountered in the process of use, which will bring confusion to users.

In order to reduce trouble for users, the official launch of SiteGround Cloud CDN. It is specially developed for users and integrates all relevant services to obtain the best effect of website opening:

Speed up: Intelligent DNS directs traffic to the CDN node closest to the user's geographical location.
Optimization: Optimize and control the back-end hosting server, increase performance and provide more one click website optimization functions.
Ease of use: Users only need to open SiteGround Cloud CDN with one click, without setting anything on third-party websites.

II Advantages of SiteGround CDN

2.1. Strong cloud protogenesis

The new CDN service is fully hosted in the cloud, providing multi region, high availability and redundant server groups. The website content is cached in multiple locations, and provided to website visitors with the lowest latency. Guide the access request to the nearest SiteGround CDN server.

2.2. Ultra Multi CDN Regional Nodes

SiteGround CDN provides the following CDN nodes: Tokyo (Japan), Singapore, Sydney (Australia), Warsaw (Poland), Hamina (Finland), London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Emshawen (Netherlands), Conceelbrovs (Iowa, USA), Cape Monks (South Carolina, USA), Darwin (Oregon, USA) , Los Angeles (California, North America), etc.

There are many cache servers distributed in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and so many CDN servers provide users with great advantages in network performance.

SiteGround makes the communication between the CDN layer and the hosting server of your website very fast by controlling them (because they are home products). The use of ECS internal routing eliminates the delay in data exchange between the third-party CDN and your website server.

In general, it ensures that the fastest private network is used between the SiteGround CDN and the managed server, bringing faster website loading speed to users.

2.3. One key start configuration is easy to set

Open the basic settings by clicking SiteGround>Site Tools>Speed>CDN.

From setting the SiteGround CDN to enabling/disabling a function, everything is handled in the SiteGround background management panel.

You only need to click Site Tools ->Speed ->CDN to solve the following problems:

• No CDN control panel
• No need to change and use external domain name server
• No need to create additional CNAME records for www domain names
• No additional HTTP configuration required

III SiteGround CDN function introduction

SiteGround users can enable the CDN acceleration function for the main domain name with one click, and it is completely free. The following are the current functions:

• Access all available CDN nodes of SiteGround
• Static and dynamic caching without additional configuration: third-party CDNs default caching and provide static content (pictures CSS、Javascript）。 Use SiteGround Cloud CDN to cache static and dynamic content of the site in one click. CDN will immediately provide cached copies of dynamically generated pages of the website, not just static content.
• Modify cache TTL (lifetime): the global default value of SiteGround CDN is 12 hours. You can freely select the cache TTL you want to set.
• Development mode: Sometimes you want to quickly view the latest website changes in real time to ensure normal. The development mode allows you to bypass the cache and obtain new content directly from the website hosting server.
• "Always online" function: The always online function guides visitors to transfer cache pages from the SiteGround CDN server. This function is used if there is an error in the website application.
• For more information, see Siteground CDN tutorial.

4、 Enable and set SiteGround CDN

Click the official website of SiteGround directly to enter Site Tools ->Speed ->CDN.

Premise: Only when your Domain name uses SiteGround DNS server To enable the service.

V SiteGround CDN function settings

Cache clearing: Clear all cache resources of the website immediately. It takes up to 60 seconds to delete all global caches. Clearing the cache too often will slow down the website;
Development mode: pause the CDN caching function of all site visitors. If you change the cacheable content (such as images Css or JavaScript) and want to see these changes immediately, then the development mode is very useful. The development mode will automatically close after 30 minutes;
Dynamic cache: a full page cache mechanism for non static resources installed on the CDN edge server. Prevent unnecessary database query and processing of each page access;
TTL: determines the time for caching the dynamic resources of the website, which is 12 hours by default.
Always online: keep the site online when the website or hosting server cannot be accessed or returns an error message and there is a cached copy of the site in the CDN.

6、 Summary

SiteGround CDN includes two packages: basic package and paid package with more functions. All users who activate CDN can use it for free for 3 months (it will be adjusted later).

SiteGround CDN directly replaces Cloudflare. It has built CDN nodes and super functions all over the world, helping the websites in the SiteGround virtual host faster.