Two Best Free CDN service providers for bloggers to speed up their blogs…


Best Free CDN service providers for bloggers

In the century of 21st, there are the most important two ways by which you can judge anything in the world. That are strength and speed. But, if we are comparing both of these qualities, then the normal person chooses speed over strength. Likewise, when a regular user who wants to find a relevant content for his queries, the first thing he wants from any blog is that having a good loading time but due to less information and supplies on the web, there are only few blogs present which are good in this area.

When I started my blogging career, the usual loading time of my blog was 30 seconds due to bunch of JavaScript files and un-optimized images. But, after using this powerful CDN tools my blog speed goes down to 4 to 8 seconds which is a very good stuff to reduce my bounce rate and make my blog more responsive to the users.

Now, let’s understand what’s CDN (content delivery network) and its uses?

What is CDN and its uses?

For definition and better understanding of CDN, I share a Wikipedia page here- through that you can understand this term in a much better way. Now begin with its uses.

As you know, when you bought a domain, then the domain service provider provides you a server which is most usually located in the United States. When a user requests any page of your website, then this request first goes to the server and after that it responses back with their requested page. But, sometimes thing went wrong such as:

Example 1:

For example, if there is any visitor of Malaysia who wants a page from your blog, then first his request travels to USA server and then its response back. To complete this whole task, it takes more than 20 seconds. But if there is a server which is situated in India then it takes less time to get response and response it back.

Example 2:

Here I have to take one more example of my friend’s blog. Actually, one day his article got published in Digg and as you know when your article get published in Digg, then that day your blog get hit by ton of traffic but his blog is not ready for such quick response because of his server low bandwidth and that whole day, his blog was shut down and temporarily server down due to low bandwidth.


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In both the cases, a CDN can help to recover from such problems. Usually, there are lots of CDN services present around the globe but according to me, not all the bloggers eat their meal in golden plate with a golden spoon. So, here I am giving you two best free CDN service provider names which can help you to get rid from such problems.

Now, let’s take names of these two best Free CDN service providers of the world, which are:

CloudFlare- Best Free CDN service Providers option 1:

CloudFlare Logo

CloudFlare is one of the Best Free CDN service Providers present around the globe. When I began my blogging career, this is the first CDN I used to speed up my blog.

There are so many advantages of this service which make me to stick with this plan for a long duration. That are:

Merits of CloudFlare- Best Free CDN service provider:

  • Cloudflare has 18 servers all around the world: 10 in United States, 4 in Europe, 1 in Hong Kong, 1 in Sydney, 1 in Singapore and 1 in Tokyo.
  • Cloudflare has a function of minimizing HTML, CSS and JavaScript code.
  • Rackspace loader is one of the best facility given by Cloudflare to speed up your blog by caching all your JavaScript files.
  • CloudFlare provides you unlimited bandwidth facility.
  • Installation: To install Cloudflare- Best Free CDN service Provider in your blog, you just have to change your Domain Name servers into CloudFlare based servers.
  • It also provides you a bunch of worthy tools like google analytics, viglinks, tools.pingdom.com,etc.

But, as you know nothing is perfect in this world and when there is a free word stick with a box, then this situation makes your mind to think one more time to buy it or not. So, the demerits are:

Demerits of Cloudflare- Best Free CDN service provider:

  • In this service, you can’t block any IPs, IP range and country to save your blog from “click bombing” and other hacking threats manually.
  • Usually, Rackspace is the best tool of CloudFlare but sometimes it becomes the most annoying property for your blog such as caching your Google AdSense Ads and about an hour, your ads remain the same. To get rid from this problem, you have to add some codes to your AdSense JavaScript file as shown below.
<script data-cfasync="false" type="text/javascript">
<!--google_ad_client = "ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx";
/* LeftADD */
google_ad_slot = "xxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 600;
//-->
</script>
<script data-cfasync="false" type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

Incapsula- Best Free CDN service Provider option 2:

Incapsula Logo


In the middle time of my blogging career, when I am earning bucks through google AdSense and using CloudFlare to speed up my blog. Then, an incident happened with my blog. That was “Click bombing”- some mischievous guy tried to click on my ads multiple times to make my blog disapproved from Google AdSense. Those days, Incapsula helps me a lot to block that men’s country and IP to save my google AdSense Approval. Like that, Incapsula also has so many qualities such as:

Merits of Incapsula- Best Free CDN service Provider:

  • Incapsula has 10 servers around the globe- 4 in United States, 4 in Europe, 1 in Singapore and 1 in Tokyo.
  • The best feature of this tool is saving your account from Click bombing and hacking by blocking the hackers with IPs, IP range and country.
  • Installation:  For installation of Incapsula-Best Free CDN service Provider in your domain, you just have to add 1 CNAME and 1 A record and with also remove all your previous “non-www” A records and “www” CNAME record.
  • It also provides a badge of security on your blog which says to hackers,” hacking here, not simple dude.”
  • It minimizes code like HTML, CSS and JavaScript to speed up your blog.
  • It also has an analytic tool which provides you an exact number of bots, threats and visitors visited your blog.

Demerits of Incapsula- Best Free CDN service Provider:

  • The bandwidth limit of Incapsula is 50GB per month which is not good when your blog is receiving more than 10000 visitors daily.
  • It does not have a Rackspace loader like tool in their settings which is the biggest demerit according to me.

Conclusion:

At last, author’s opinion- Actually both CDNs are useful and better as per the condition. But, after checking the loading speed time of both CDN for my blog in gtmetrix.com and tools.pingdom.com. Then, my conclusion is that, Cloudflare beats Incapsula with a great measure in speed. But, if you get caught in click bombing like stuff in future, then Incapsula is the best option for you.


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