A website must be fast and demonstrate high performance in order to succeed and gain a return traffic. Webpages and blogs that approach an international audience and distinctively the ones that display rich media or offer complex services will find out sooner or later that the best way to achieve the aforementioned objective is by using CDN services.
Content Delivery Network is an internet-based distribution system consists of computers and servers deployed effectively around the globe. CDN saves copies of your data at different nodes and decreases latency. The data may include live media, applications, downloadable software etc. The bottom line is reliable CDN systems are highly secured and dramatically improve the users’ experience.
The problem with credible CDN systems is the cost. Nevertheless, the good news is that a few free solutions are available for small websites and blogs. The CDN providers listed below are designed to answer all your site delivery needs; yet, there are other companies that take care of rich media files distribution as long as you create and host them via their platform.
Best Free CDN Providers and More
Cloud Flare
Cloud Flare provides core services such delivery optimization, threats blocking and limitation of abusive bots and crawlers that may waste your bandwidth and server resources. It operates 23 data centers around the world, and its average request time is less than 30ms. The setup stage is fast and simple and does not require software installation. The basic services are offered for free while advanced features can be available in 3 different upgraded plans.
Incapsula
Incapsula ensures optimization of loading and navigation processes, which are achieved by CDN and fast page rendering. Incapsula can perform as a load balancer or work with existing load balancers on premise or cloud solutions. Incapsula dynamic cache algorithm automatically detects cacheable content and furthermore, it optimizes visitors’ browser and mobile caching. There is a free basic plan as well as personal and business reasonably priced plans with extra features.
Coral
Coral CDN is a free, open peer-to-peer content distribution network that has been operating continuously since 2004. It is the first completely decentralized self-organizing CDN and consists of 260 servers worldwide.
Cloud Front
Cloud Front is one of Amazon web services, and it is included in this list even though it is not provided for free. The main difference between Cloud Front CDN and other similar services is the pricing method. There is no commitment on the user’s behalf. You pay only for the content you actually deliver through the network and the requests you use.
Cincopa
Cincopa is a great example for multimedia platforms that provide their users with additional hosting and delivery services. The company focuses on rich media solutions; however, the application grants you with the option to use hosting and CDN services for any image, video and audio presentations you create in the system. This is an efficient service for blogs and sites that need CDN services only for their media files. Cincopa has free and upgraded plans.
Amazon is not free. Just went there. Pay per usage.
Hi Michael, you are right, but it is written in the post 🙂 The service is not free, but the payment method is different from most providers and may be beneficial for many users.
CloudFlare is best for me. Very Simple Interface and good Uptime also. I also like to say don’t use coral CDN “google will reat your site as malware”.
I use CloudFlare for my websites. Free and fast. Very easy to configure, just edit domain’s NS and website speed will be optimized automatically.
I am currently using incapsula. In because when I use cloudflare, many of my national origin IP blocked 🙂
My hosting don t allow mw to change the name server, what can i do?
What’s up, I have noticed that on occasion this page renders an 403 error message. I thought that you would be keen to know. All the best
cloudfare is fast but when I use it, my website frequently down. because wearing a free plan? but if using incapsula, my website was not down all day. there is something wrong in my clouldlare setting? please tell me. thanks
i use pingdom to check downtime my website (setting 5 minutes)
hello ?I use cloudfare
Hi Lin, Cloud Flare is indeed among our recommendations. Good choice!