Content Delivery Network.
It's a little secret that web developers
are using to speed up websites without using an expensive hosting plan.
Why?
Because you can get away with loading files from the CDN,
thus speeding up website and reducing the bandwidth usage on your hosting plan.
Now, in this case, I'm going to show you Hostinger's CDN that's included in most
plans in these plans right now, and you can start using it right away.
I'm going to show you how to use it
and what performance I'm getting with a test demo site that I've created.
Let's go check this out.
This is the demo site that I've created
on my Hostinger's plan, and I'm going to show you how it performs.
Now, let me show you this site really quickly.
This is what I've created, and you can see it's a simple,
nice looking site with a little effect here on the containers that I really love.
Now, this is the speed that I'm getting for this particular website.
I'm getting an A on GTMetrics and it's loading in less than 700 milliseconds.
That is less than one second.
Now, that's really fast, right?
Let me show you how to accomplish this.
But before that, let me show you the plans that they have available.
For example, let me show you this quick little plan that they have that's really
inexpensive and it's a business plan and it's $3.99. Now you can get an extra
discount with the coupon code that I'm going to provide you.
Let me go ahead and add it to my card and show you that coupon code.
Now in this plan, you're going to get this content delivery network system.
We're able to choose from 1 to 48 months.
I recommend that you choose 48 months because you lock in the price,
plus the renewal price is also cheaper than the rest, so 48 months.
If you use the coupon code that I'm going
to provide you by applying it here, so just add SaaS Master, apply it.
Right now it's $191,
and now it's $172 using my coupon code, so don't forget to use it.
Now, let's use the content delivery network.
In my case, I have this cloud startup
hosting plan on my hosting account and jump into it by going into Manage.
To access the CDN, we are going to go into Performance.
In Performance, there's a section that's called CDN.
Now in this case, I have activated already.
That's why I'm getting those page speed scores.
If you need to disable it for some reason, just go ahead and click on it.
Now, disabling it might take a bit to take
effect, so consider that if you could turn it off and on.
If you need to just turn it off
for testing purposes, enable this developer mode.
Now, let's go into the actual settings.
In these settings, first of all,
we're going to get into the website optimization.
In the website optimization, we have the WebP image compression.
I would suggest enable this, Minify CSS files and Minify JavaScript files.
Just enable all of these and the image compression.
This is Smart image compression that is
going to enable you change the maximum width for desktop and mobile.
That means that if you upload an image
bigger than 1,600 pixels, well, it's going to make it smaller even if it's bigger.
Why?
Because let's just say that 1,600 pixels is actually quite enough for a big screen.
You don't want to load a big image on a small screen.
You can enable this for desktop and mobile.
You can reduce this if you like or keep it as it is as recommended.
The image quality,
you can do the compression for 85 % on desktop and 70 % on mobile.
Obviously, it depends on you if this is
going to be enough or if you need to use more.
Now, do take in consideration that if you are a photographer and you are uploading
images with really high quality, well, you want to reduce the compression on this.
Once you have all of this enabled, you're good to go.
There's also options for traffic blocking.
If you need to block some traffic for some
certain reason, so IP addresses or by country,
you can do so by adding it here at the IP or IP range.
You can also block by countries.
You might want to do that for some specific reason.
Let's just say that you want to focus on United States and you don't care about
traffic from other countries, well, disable all the rest.
It's just an example, but you can do that.
Then there's the security where you can
enable to use TLS latest version, which is 1.3. In my recommendation,
I wouldn't recommend this because there are still users who are using TLS
1.2 or 1.1. Now, if you want to really get all users with new devices and you don't
use all devices, then go ahead and enable this.
But it's up to you if you want to use that.
It's super easy to start using your CDN on Hostinger.
Now, if you have several sites, you're going to view them here and you can
enable them and disable them for each one of them on your hosting plan.
Basically just like that, you can get a great page piece score if
you have an optimized site and you use Hostinger's CDN.
But there you go.
If you want to grab it, the link will be provided in the description.
Don't forget to use the coupon code that I just provided.
That's a wrap.