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Free CDN – for a faster website, globally
How a CDN works
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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, it also helps your website in other ways. Search engines love fast-loading sites so there’s an SEO benefit to having a CDN.
Our Free CDN
Our CDN offers the same edge caching features as paid CDNs from providers like Cloudflare.
While it has one-click activation, we give advanced users the option of development mode, and dynamic/custom cache settings – freedom to experiment.
You can purge the cache in a click to make instant updates. Nuisance visitors can be blocked by IP address or country.
Stay on top of site performance and monitor for problems with our comprehensive set of statistics. It gives raw data on CDN activity, presented in charts. So you can make informed decisions on traffic trends and monitor for issues following site changes.
The Free Global CDN from a UK Company
Fast loading websites anywhere
Our global network will edge-cache full pages close to where the user is based. It works with our StackCache WordPress module – no plugins required – as well as any other software that sets public cache control headers. So it works for any site: Linux, Windows or WordPress.
The same network as the web giants
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. So Acorn Web Hosting customers get access to enterprise-level connectivity.
Reliability and uptime
Improve reliability and uptime of your website, wherever your user is based. As your site is served from data centres 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 the potential number of problems on the journey.
Benefits of a CDN
WEBSITE OPTIMISATION
If your website is data-heavy and bloated, it will load slowly even if you use fast hosting and a CDN. Our Website Acceleration Suite gives you the option to slim-down your data payload, without having an effect on its appearance or function.
Automatic image resizing
Slow-loading images are the bane of website performance. Our image Content Delivery Network 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 will compress your images on the fly saving you time.
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 to be loaded only when in view
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 the code. This allows the network payload to be reduced and enables websites to loaded faster than normal.
Next-Gen Image Formats
Our image optimisation tools will convert files to fast-loading next-gen image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP.
One-click optimisation
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.
We give you the tools to get your Google PageSpeed Score to 100/100!
Why Use The Acorn Web Hosting CDN?
While a fast-loading site on desktop is important, mobile devices are now 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.
The Acorn Web Hosting 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 Acorn Web Hosting CDN you can limit harm to the planet too.
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 Acorn Web Hosting CDN you can limit harm to the planet too.
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.
Features at Your fingertips
Every website is different, so the Acorn Web Hosting CDN gives you control over every feature, directly from our control panels. All options are exposed so you can fine-tune performance.
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.
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One-click optimisation
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Preset Profiles
Not your thing? If you want a quick fix, then select our tried-and-tested pre-set ‘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.
Our CDN will allow you to minify CSS, HTML, handle images and more with a a few clicks. Easy to use, effective and proven so give your site the speed it deserves.
Compare our free CDN
AS GOOD AS CLOUDFLARE PRO
Other companies offer ‘hosting with a CDN’, but just offer Cloudflare’s free package along with your hosting.
The Acorn Web Hosting CDN is different. We give you the premium features of paid CDNs – but without the cost.
Web Hosting available from just £2.99/month.
CDN: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
For any company that has an international presence – or wants an international presence – a CDN is important. It means that your website will load fast anywhere in the world. Fast sites lead to more sales and better search performance.
You might think CDN may not be important to you if you’re a local ‘bricks and mortar’ business that only serves your nearby community. That’s understandable, but having a fast site gives you SEO advantages, even locally. So even if you don’t have an international market, it’s still worth activating your free CDN and making use of its website speed acceleration.
Don’t worry: we promise no ads, and everything’s above-board. We’re committed to using new technologies to change web hosting for the better. So our free CDN is our way of making our world-class web hosting even better value.
We say: since ours is free, use it all the time! There’s no disadvantage to using it, and unlike some providers, the Acorn Web Hosting CDN doesn’t charge you for the bandwidth you use.
The only time you might want to turn off any of the Website Acceleration Suite optimisations are if they interfere with any complex functions on your site. Our friendly support team is here to help if you have any difficulties.
Our cloud web hosting is rock solid and suitable for most needs. But if you’re looking for a hosting solution that dedicates resources to your sites and lets you lean on our expert Technical Support team, then a Managed Virtual Private Server would be for you. If you’re a developer, a Managed VPS will give you more freedom to install extra apps.
Yes. We offer unlimited Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for any sites or web applications you host on a Managed VPS. They can be added in a click from the control panel and renew automatically every 3 months.
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