First launched back in October 2018, the WPX Cloud is our own superfast, hand-built Content Delivery Network (CDN) with 26 ‘end points’ (and growing!) around the world.
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- WPX Hosting is without a doubt, one of the more unique hosting companies I’ve investigated. For one thing, it’s dedicated solely to providing WordPress hosting, but being the best at it. The WPX website is very modern, full of the clean graphic designs like the ones above, and makes a compelling case.
Put simply, using a CDN is like having a server near any of your site visitors to help load and run your website faster and more efficiently for them, even for visitors from the other side of the world.
For example, let’s say that you’re a nature photography blogger based in Montana, USA, and your website is hosted with WPX in our Chicago datacentre.
All WPX customers prior to 24th Oct 2018 will have the new WPX Cloud turned OFF by default, while new WPX customers on or after that same date will have the WPX Cloud turned ON by default. NOTE: For the WPX Cloud CDN to work, your domains MUST be pointed to WPX Nameservers – let us know if you are not sure and we will check.
That site will load well across North America but nature-lovers visiting your blog from Australia, Europe, Asia, and Africa will find that your website is slower to load for them.
This is because your blog’s content (images and text mainly) is being retrieved from one of our Chicago servers and sent all the way across the world to visitors outside the USA.
Instead, our CDN has already copied your popular content to servers around the world to benefit your far-away site visitors.
So whether your visitors are from Berlin, Sydney, Johannesburg, or Tokyo, they’ll see your blog content from a fast local server and not from the other side of the world.
Using our Cloud CDN, the speed increase for site visitors around the world is dramatic.
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Unlike most CDNs, our Cloud was custom-built from the ground up BY us (a hosting company!) specifically FOR high-performance WordPress hosting.
Plus, we test and tweak our Cloud CDN constantly for maximum WordPress performance and that’s something that conventional CDN companies (who are not hosting companies) can’t or simply won’t do.
That’s why speed tests show how sites hosted on the WPX Cloud completely surpass other CDN-powered hosting companies when it comes to raw speed!
You can see just how fast our CEO, Terry Kyle’s, image-heavy site runs on the WPX Cloud;
How do I activate the WPX Cloud CDN on my websites?
All WPX customers prior to 24th Oct 2018 will have the new WPX Cloud turned OFF by default, while new WPX customers on or after that same date will have the WPX Cloud turned ON by default.
NOTE: For the WPX Cloud CDN to work, your domains MUST be pointed to WPX Nameservers – let us know if you are not sure and we will check.
To turn ON your WPX Cloud service, log in to your WPX Control Panel. From here, choose Service Management (1):
Now click on the WPX Cloud (2) link in the bottom left menu;
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From the listed sites/domains here, just click the Toggle button for each site that you want running on the WPX Cloud CDN;
IMPORTANT: after activating your Cloud, it will take approximately ONE HOUR for your website’s content to be copied and distributed throughout the WPX Cloud network.
If you’re not sure what to do, you can always ask our friendly Support Team and they will enable the WPX Cloud on your websites fast and free!
We did not automatically enable the WPX Cloud for all customers prior to 24th October 2018 was simply to ensure the compatibility and functionality of all sites with the new CDN.
Will the WPX Cloud work with every kind of website?
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Yes but some sites benefit much more from a CDN than others.
For instance, if you have a typical WordPress blog with images, text, and optin forms, or even a portfolio site (for photographers or artists), then the WPX Cloud will massively accelerate your page’s loading speed.
However, if you have a website with bespoke or dynamic elements, like an eCommerce site with individual shopping carts, then the WPX Cloud won’t help as much because those dynamic elements can’t be cached by our CDN.
Long-time WPX customers will know that we have been recommending W3 Total Cache with our custom settings to improve the performance of websites. With the WPX Cloud, the W3TC plugin IS still recommended, using our optimal settings.
Absolutely.
From the date of its launch, our Cloud CDN has been freely available for all WPX Hosting customers across all plans: Business, Professional and Elite.
How will using the WPX Cloud affect my bandwidth allocation?
It won’t.
All that changes with the WPX Cloud is from where and how your site content is served to visitors to your websites, and how quickly.
Plan limits for bandwidth are unchanged.
Where are the WPX Cloud CDN end-points around the world?
As of August 2020, these are our current CDN end-points:
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1. New Jersey, USA
2. Chicago, USA
3. Dallas, USA
4. Seattle, USA
5. Los Angeles, USA
6. Atlanta, USA
7. Kansas City, USA
8. Silicon Valley, USA
9. Miami, USA
10. Toronto, Canada
11. Amsterdam, Netherlands
12. London, UK
13. Manchester, UK
14. Frankfurt, Germany
15. Moscow, Russia
16. Sydney, Australia
17. Auckland, New Zealand
18. Paris, France
19. Tokyo, Japan
20. Singapore
21. Hong Kong, China
22. Pune, India
23. Johannesburg, South Africa
24. Sofia, Bulgaria
25. Sao Paulo, Brazil
26. Madrid, Spain
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Should you have further questions about the WPX Cloud CDN or need help activating it, please contact us via the live chat widget in the bottom right hand of your screen – we do usually respond in 30 seconds or less.