W3 Total Cache CDN??

  • Can someone please explain to me the advantages here?

    This morning, our website host went down for over 4 hours therefor our wordpress page was down the entire time. GoDaddy is telling us to install W3 Total Cache to avoid this from happening in the future when their servers go down……. In my experience, even with W3 Total Cache installed, if our host goes down the website would still go down. Am I correct?

    It’s not technically a “CDN”… Someone please explain.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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  • Correct – using CDN won’t help your site if your host goes down. Godaddy are notoriously shitty hosts – if you care about your sites stability you really should be going with someone else.

    CDN works in two ways – push or pull.
    * Push will upload your assets on a timer to your chosen CDN. Assets include theme js/css/images/fonts, /wp-content/upload files and a few others.
    * Pull will rewrite all your asset URLs to the CDN URL which will in turn download from your site on the fly and cache (usually for 24 hours). This is generally the easier to use method.

    If your host goes down, your page will never be able to generate because it’s generated using the host. Doesn’t matter if your assets are on a CDN or not. Stop being cheap and get a proper host. Noone should ever be putting their sites on that shitty host.

    Thread Starter mbrooksher

    (@mbrooksher)

    I appreciate the response! I just needed someone else to verify what I was already pretty sure of. As far as GoDaddy goes, I did not have anything to do with those decisions nor was I even involved at that time. I can’t disagree with you one bit.

    The short list has already been made as far as what hosts to switch to but I would love to hear your recommendations. For me, I’ve been using POWWEB for well over 15 years and have never had an issue. More so, their WordPress solutions seem to be pretty decent as well.

    Thanks again.

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