Do I need caching plugins in addition to the CDN?
The short answer is no, the Content Delivery Network takes care of caching for you. The CDN caches static content and stores it until it’s purged via the Edge Caching section in stackcp.com. This means you shouldn’t use any additional caching plugins such as W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache. In addition, we handle optimisation via the Website Acceleration…
CDN Security Headers
Using HTTP security headers can improve website and application security and protect against clickjacking, cross-site scripting, as well as other common attacks. HTTP headers lets the client and server pass additional information using an HTTP request or response which can have an impact on its final behaviour. Security headers are the subset that specifically have…
CDN Statistics
With the BelieveHost – Cloud CDN, you can get an understanding about the traffic and requests accessing your sites. Detailed data sets are collated and presented in charts for each of your sites at BelieveHost – Cloud, giving you insights about your site’s performance. Accessing site Statistics You can access the statistics for each site…
How do I use the CDN?
The CDN is quick and easy to use. Head to the package you want to enable our CDN for and locate the CDN section. To activate the main Edge Caching element of the CDN, select Edge Caching – select the toggle to activate it (Manage Hosting -> Manage -> Edge Caching). There’s nothing more you need to do! All static content on your…
Why am I getting a cache status ‘MISS’?
Headers returning x-cdn-cache-status MISS indicate the request was served by the origin 20i server. This means that the response was not found in the cache and so was fetched from the origin server. This could result in a longer time-to-first byte and a longer total load time. On pages you want to be cached you’d expect to see x-cdn-cache-status…