Bandwidth, Transfer, and ‘Unlimited’: Reading Hosting Fine Print
A plain-language guide to what hosting plans actually meter, what fair-use clauses really mean, and how to estimate the transfer your WordPress site truly needs.
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Full-Page Edge Caching: Serving WordPress from the CDN
Most sites only cache static assets at the edge. This guide shows you how to cache entire HTML pages on Cloudflare, handle the real-world exceptions that break naive setups, and keep dynamic content working correctly.
How CDNs Work: From Origin to 300 Edge Cities
Follow a single page request as it travels from a visitor's browser to the nearest edge server and back, and learn why cache hierarchies, tiered caching, and origin shields matter for your WordPress site.
Server Location Still Matters: Latency by the Numbers
Edge caching has changed a lot about how fast a WordPress site feels, but physics hasn't changed. Here's how to think about origin location, round-trip time, and where a CDN actually picks up the slack.