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A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is all about making a website load faster for all users, wherever they are in the world.
This is done by storing (caching) copies of your website on servers at the network edge. For example, if your website is hosted at a UK data centre, there might be a delay if you try to access that site from the USA. So a copy of your website is stored on a server closer to the user, called a Point of Presence (POP).
Multiple copies of your site’s data is stored at different POPs throughout the world, so your site will load faster in remote places. Your users will navigate your site more efficiently, wherever they are.
While it’s good for users, the 8CDN has other advantages. Search engines love fast-loading sites so there’s an SEO benefit to having a CDN.
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Our global network will edge-cache full pages close to where the user is based. Our caching integrates seamlessly with WordPress – no plugins required – as well as any other software that sets public cache control headers. So it works on any website.
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Our CDN makes use of the same internet exchange points (neutral data centres) used by AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and many other leading tech companies. Whatever your business or project, you’ll get enterprise-level connectivity with the CDN.
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Improve the reliability and uptime of your website, wherever your user is based. As your site is served from data centers close to them, there are fewer ‘hops’ in the network. The internet service provider only needs to route the user to our nearest POP, reducing service delivery times.
Supercharge your site with our CDN
If your website is bloated, it may load slowly even if you are on a fast hosting. Our Website Acceleration Suite slims-down the data payload of your site, without affecting its appearance or function.
Automatic image resizing
Slow-loading images are the bane of website performance. Our image CDN will scan your images and resize them for the appropriate size for mobile and desktop.
Image compression
‘Raw’ images often contain information that can be removed or compressed without a visible loss in quality. Our CDN compresses your images ‘on the fly’, saving you time.
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Our image optimisation tools will convert files to fast-loading next-gen image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP.
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Give your site a performance boost on mobile and desktop with a single click. A simple risk-free solution that will give you better PageSpeed scores.
Code minification
We can minify and strip whitespace from our code. Our CDN will compress HTML, CSS and JavaScript files to reduce time spent parsing, compiling and executing it. Network payload is reduced, so sites load faster.
Lazy loading
Only load what’s going to be presented to the user immediately: what’s going to be seen first. Your above-the-fold content will appear in a browser more quickly by deferring off-screen images or other non-critical resources.
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While a fast-loading site on a desktop is important, mobile devices are the most common way to access the web. Mobile networks are slower, and phones are less powerful than desktops – so a site that’s fast on a desktop machine can crawl on a phone.
This can impact your bottom line: when page load time increases from 1 second to 5 seconds, the probability of a user abandoning your page rises by 90% (Google). People are impatient and unwilling to wait for a slow web page. Latency costs you money, so that’s where a CDN and Website Acceleration Suite can help.
Our free CDN reduces latency through its edge caching and optimises your website content for snappy, responsive page loads.
Google’s messaging about site speed couldn’t be more clear: fast sites rank higher, and slow sites may receive a penalty. Site speed has become increasingly important to ranking on all search engines’ results pages.
A search engine wants to be popular. It can only achieve that by giving users results that satisfy them. If you click a link that doesn’t load quickly, you’re more likely to return to the search results and try an alternative. That alternative might be a competitor, and the search engine could rank that competitor higher next time. So you could lose ranking, as well as a sale.
Our CDN and website optimisation tools will help shave off those all-important seconds from load time – improving its SEO performance wherever your customers are in the world.
Some of us are lucky enough to live in locations where the cost of data is low. But it’s not the same everywhere. If your market is global you should consider this. In some places, a smartphone is the only portal to the internet for most people and data can be expensive.
Understandably, mobile users are reluctant to stay on sluggish, data-hungry websites. Our optimisations will help to make your site load quickly on slow networks and low-spec devices, keeping users engaged.
Data also has a cost to the environment: larger downloads and long-distance data transfers consume more energy and produce CO2. Reducing the payload of your website lessens its overall carbon footprint. So by using the 8CDN, you can limit harm to the planet too.
Features at your fingertips
Every website is different, so the 8CDN gives you control over every feature, directly from our control panels.
For example, as well as global edge caching, you can control whether images, CSS and JavaScript are cached independently.
Our Website Acceleration Suite includes over 40 different ways to improve your website’s speed. You can save performance settings as templates and apply that template to any other website in your account.
Preset profiles
Not your thing? If you want a quick fix, then select our tried-and-tested preset ‘One-click Optimisation’ to get your site loading at lightning speed straight away – it’s up to you. It’s a one-click speed boost.
For advanced users who have launched their websites using the Obvi8 hosting platform, you also have the option to toggle on and off, tweak, and optimize freely according to your needs.
Frequently asked questions about our WordPress Hosting
WordPress can be installed in a few clicks from your MyObvi8 control panel.
PHP – that WordPress runs on – is optimized specifically for WordPress installations. This includes proprietary PHP-FPM optimization and PHP OPcache, which will both improve website performance. Also included is the free Cache plugin, which works with the CDN to ensure that popular content is stored at the network edge, leading to super-fast loading times for your users.
To migrate to Obvi8, you can use our free and unlimited Migration Center which will move your websites automatically using FTP. Our Support Team can help should you have any questions.
Yes, with all Obvi8 hosting you must use custom domain names. You can buy domain names through your MyObvi8 control panel. We sell them at the lowest cost – with no big surprises after a year – what you pay to register the domain doesn’t leap in price after a year.
We have a feature-packed file manager that makes it easy to access your WordPress files. You can upload, download, edit, delete and create files in an attractive user interface. You can manage your database from our MyObvi8 control panel using phpMyAdmin.
Your first port of call should be to contact our in-house Support Team, who are available every day and night. They’re WordPress hosting enthusiasts, familiar with all the issues that can face a WordPress user. They’ll help you with any problems, even they aren’t related to web hosting. They’re known for their concise, expert replies. They don’t rely on ‘boilerplate answers’ and will investigate a problem until it’s solved.
There are also DIY solutions. We have an extensive Knowledge Base which covers common WordPress issues and blog for extra advice. We also include a free automatic Malware Scanner. If this detects malware, it will give you the opportunity to remove it in a click.
Should you wish to edit files, you can use our File Manager, and if you want to test and troubleshoot problems yourself, you can do this on a staging website, leaving your live site unaffected.
Yes, you can use any WordPress plugins and themes, although we’d always recommend getting them from reputable providers.
Some plugins won’t be necessary, as our WordPress Hosting includes many features offered traditionally by plugins. An example would be our CDN Web Acceleration Suite, which performs performance optimization on images and code at the server level. Another would be the Obvi8 WordPress Manager, which enables you manage all your WordPress websites – things like updates and users – across all your websites from a single screen. We have a bunch of security features that can’t usually be found anywhere except through plugins.
Reducing the number of plugins that you use tends to improve website performance.
It’s quick and easy to set up a WordPress staging environment in MyObvi8 Select the WordPress Staging icon, then ‘Create Staging Site’. Your website will then be cloned to staging. Here, you can make any changes and view the results without affecting your live website.
Once you’re happy with the results, you can ask for your staging site to be ‘Cloned into Live’. All your changes will then appear on the live website.
Yes, WordPress can be used for ecommerce. Major brands like Etsy, Home Depot, IKEA and Target use WordPress. The most well-known ecommerce plugin is WooCommerce, but there are other alternatives.
All our hosting is optimized for high-performance online stores, perfect if you a run large or growing ecommerce website.
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