While Seravo does not provide its own CDN service, you can integrate an external CDN provider with your WP service to gain additional features, such as enhanced security or traffic routing. Popular services of this type include Cloudflare and Fastly.
We do not recommend using a CDN, as the intended benefits may not materialize at the level promised by marketing claims. A more detailed analysis of Cloudflare can be found on our blog article. In the worst case, your site may even slow down when its traffic is routed through a third party. Seravo's service has various security and speed optimizations built right in.
Points to Consider When Adopting a CDN
A CDN service can be implemented only after you have a functional site running on our service. When migrating a site to Seravo, third-party services should be temporarily disabled to prevent their extra routing from interfering with the Seravo server's operation and troubleshooting in case of errors. Once the site is migrated and running smoothly, you can re-enable the external routing.
The customer is responsible for ensuring that the HTTPS security chain is intact and that traffic between Seravo and the third party is also secured, not just the connection between the end-user and the third party.
Consultation on implementing Cloudflare or Fastly, or troubleshooting related routing or HTTPS certificate issues, is not included in Seravo's standard service packages, but we may be able to assist with problems as a paid expert service.
What Does CDN Mean?
CDN is an abbreviation for Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network. This refers to a group of geographically dispersed proxy server networks.
The idea is that your site's data is replicated across multiple servers whose geographical locations are scattered. In some cases, a CDN can speed up the site's performance because information is loaded from the data center physically closest to the user, instead of relying on a single, potentially distant data center. However, the usefulness of this largely depends on the origin country of the majority of your site's traffic.