Should you use Cloudflare (CDN) on your website?

04/05/2023 36 min
Should you use Cloudflare (CDN) on your website?

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Episode Synopsis

In today’s episode Steffen and Dominik are discussing content delivery networks (CDNs), with a focus on Cloudflare. CDNs are used to distribute static content to users more quickly and efficiently. However managing content on a CDN can be complicated, especially when it comes to caching and ensuring that content is consistent across different servers. In this episode you'll learn about some best practices for dealing with these issues.Highlights00:00 Intro00:15 What is a CDN?02:42 How to use a CDN05:17 Pros and Cons of Push vs. Pull08:16 Prevent inconsistent assets14:10 Types of Caching17:32 Full-Page Caching18:51 What's special about Cloudflare21:55 Does every website need a CDN?25:12 GDPR compliance27:53 Why we use Cloudflare31:36 Pro tipLinksCloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/Cloudflare Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cloudflare-page-cache/More from BleechBlog Posts (WordPress Development)Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)