The Cloudflare cPanel plugin so many of us use to connect our domains to Cloudflare will officially stop working on the 1st of November, 2022. Here's a screenshot of the e-mail that Cloudflare sent out to all its hosting and reseller partners: Cloudflare cPanel Plugin End-of-Life … [Read more...]
Cheap CDN Hosting: QUIC.cloud and Cloudflare
A CDN traditionally hosted only static files like images, JavaScript and CSS. But new technologies from QUIC.cloud and Cloudflare, allow for full site hosting on POPs around the world. Finally, cheap CDN hosting is within reach, and it'll change web hosting forever. Welcome to a new world, where … [Read more...]
The Best CDN in South Africa isn’t Good Enough!
Africa has a CDN problem. It's unique in that almost every CDN company has a server in Africa but using it will probably slow down your site! We're so used to the idea of "needing a CDN", that we never pause to consider the exceptions. And Africa is an exception. It doesn't matter if you have the … [Read more...]
Every CDN Ignores Your Cache Retention Preferences
Update: The new Cloudflare Reserve feature stores your files in cache indefinitely, thereby solving this problem. It's a paid service but small to medium-sized sites will barely see any cost. This puts Cloudflare way above all other CDN providers. After years of working with different CDN … [Read more...]
Why the Cloudflare Free Tier is the Best CDN
I've been experimenting with a lot of different CDNs lately, and I've come to a realization. The Cloudflare free tier has the best CDN out of all the others in the market. It's easy to take it for granted because it's free. All web hosts allow you to integrate directly with Cloudflare for free as … [Read more...]