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HowTo: Configure WordPress To Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2010

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“Research shows that if your web pages take longer than
5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales. You can
speed up your wordpress blog by using a CDN to display content to
users faster and more efficiently. You can distributes common files
or content such as css, javascript, uploaded images, videos and
much more through a CDN, which serves the content from the closest
cdn edge server to the end-user. In this tutorial, I will explains
how to configure WordPress, Apache/Lighttpd webserver, Bind dns
server to use a CDN to distribute your common files such as css,
js, user uploaded files and lighten load on your web server

“What Is A CDN?

“A content delivery network or content distribution network
(CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at
various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access
to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses
a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients
accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottleneck near
that server. A cdn will increase speed and efficiency for your
blog.

“What Are The Advantages Of Using CDN Over Central…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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