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
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:
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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