Gcore CDN vs Shift8 CDN

With Gcore’s WordPress CDN plugin, you can easily connect your website to Gcore CDN service without additional effort. It simplifies the management of links to your static content that should be cached via CDN. FEATURES With the Gcore WordPress CDN plugin, you can: * Select the type of files you want to cache: images, video, audio, JS, CSS, or archive. * Specify the exact file extension of files you want to cache. * Narrow your selection by choosing the folder (by name or URL) within your WordPress website. * Create exceptions for files that shouldn’t be cached, specifying their URLs. HOW IT WORKS Sign in to your Gcore account Create a new CDN resource Install the plugin on your WordPress site Specify the domain in the plugin Set type/folder/exceptions for caching files As a result, your website visitors will enjoy a faster and more responsive browsing experience. Our CDN plugin is a simple way to optimize your website’s performance, ensuring that your content will be delivered to your audience in the most efficient way. Author Gcore

This is a plugin that integrates a 100% free CDN service operated by Shift8, for your WordPress site. What this means is that you can simply install this plugin, activate and register with our CDN service and all of your static assets on your website will be served through our global content delivery network. Migration Notice Shift8 CDN as a service is migrating into Atomic Edge. Your user account has been migrated to the new dashboard, click here to reset your password. Community Support If you need support, please head over to our community discourse forum for you to more easily access support resources. Check out our new Shift8 CDN website You can now create your own dashboard account to add/remove/manage your sites : Shift8 CDN. Note if you have a site created prior to this dashboard, you can submit a request on the support forums and we can migrate the site for you. Instructions for setup Register for an account by CLICKING HERE Once your account is activated, go to the Shift8 CDN dashboard and click “Create Site” Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add” Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix Install this WordPress plugin and activate Go to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes” Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems. Instructions for upgrading from a version prior to 1.30 It is important before you upgrade the plugin to disable the CDN and unregister your site. Your site needs to be unregistered before upgrading, otherwise we will have to manually migrate the site for you Once the “Enable Shift8 CDN” setting is disabled, and your site is unregistered, update the plugin via the WordPress plugin update system Once the plugin is updated, head to our site to register your account on our systems Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add” Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix Go back to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes” Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems. Newly added entpoints New endpoints added : Frankfurt, Germany Ukraine Free Content Delivery Network for your Static Content Shift8 has rolled out a consistently-growing CDN with endpoints all over the world. This plugin will make your site load way faster by using latency-based and geographic-based DNS resolution for requests made to your site to be served by an endpoint closest to the user making the request. This means that a user making a request in Mumbai, India will hit the Mumbai server to download the static content from your website, improving performance remarkably. Current endpoints in use (more added regularly) : USA – Northern California USA – Northern Virginia USA – Dallas, TX USA – Miami, FL Canada – Toronto Europe – London, England Europe – Stockholm, Sweden Europe – Warsaw, Poland Europe – Frankfurt, Germany Europe – Ukraine Asia Pacific – Hong Kong, China Asia Pacific – Tokyo, Japan Asia Pacific – Sydney, Australia Asia Pacific – Singapore Asia Pacific – Mumbai, India Latin America – Sao Paulo, Brazil You can learn more about how the CDN was setup and how it works by reading our blog post. Want to see the plugin in action? You can view three example sites where this plugin is live : Example Site 1 : WordPress Hosting Example Site 2 : Web Design in Toronto Features 100% Free CDN for static assets on your site (CSS, JS, Images, Font files and more) Geographic and latency based DNS routing of requests to the nearest endpoint server across the globe Super easy set up : just install plugin, activate and register to start using within minutes.