Issues with a CDN

luffytaro

I have been using Cloudflare for a long time now, and I really like the service. But I recently came across these posts:

Firstly, I know this is not the right forum to talk about SEO. But after going through such posts, I couldn't help but try switching away from Cloudflare and trying out a different CDN. I also know that some of these posts are old, but I read similar posts on Reddit that are very recent.

So, tried integrating Cloudfront, but it didn't work as CDNs like Cloudfront fetch content from the origin server IP. And it is unable to do so. So, is there any workaround to make this happen?

Also, a very big motivation for me is that my traffic is constantly declining, and my site is as whitehat as it gets. The quality is top-notch, and I used to get more than mil+ pageviews/month. Now, I get around 200k (max).

nsgoyat

I have three high-traffic WordPress sites where I have been using Cloudflare for almost 2 Years and those sites are working totally fine and getting millions of organic traffic monthly. Not only me but 90% of my competitors in are also using Cloudflare.

I use the Cloudflare Pro plan which provides better network routing, image optimization, and APO feature which makes me manage thousands of real-time even with a $6/Month server.

Traffic loss is a normal thing when Google is launching a new SERP update almost every month. I don't think Cloudflare has anything to do here.

luffytaro

Ok. But just out of curiosity, is there any way to integrate Cloudfront or a similar CDN? Is there any guide?

nsgoyat

luffytaro You can use any CDN you want. It has nothing to do with WordOps. A guide for CDN implementation that works with any other host/tool should work well with WordOps too. Just make sure you start with--wp (No Cache) configuration as multiple layers of cache might cause issues.

Full Page Cache configuration with Cloudfront and BunnyCDN is possible but they are very outdated guides/configurations and hard to set up, and a manual URLs purge will be required.

BunnyCDN: https://www.gulshankumar.net/cache-wordpress-html-bunnycdn/

Cloudfront: https://supporthost.in/how-to-setup-amazon-cloudfront-with-wordpress/