MaxCDN Review

MaxCDN is one of the largest Content Delivery Network provider. They accelerate your site and decrease the server load.

MaxCDN has grown to become one of the top CDN providers for WordPress users. The company has created an affordable and easy to use Content Delivery Network which serves as a perfect solution for WordPress Users.

Should you use MaxCDN for your wordpress site?

We would highly recommend you do so. The main reason behind our decision was site performance and SEO. After the Google Panda update, everyone knows that site load time plays a crucial role in your search engine ranking positions (SERPs).

What is CDN?

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance.

A CDN drastically improves your site’s load time by distributing the static content across the all servers in their global peering network. When a visitor requests a page, the static files are served from the CDN’s server which is physically closest to his/her (the visitor’s) location. Static files include JavaScript and CSS files, images, custom web-fonts and other web objects.

Why MaxCDN?

MaxCDN’s start plan costs only $9/month and their plus plan costs only $39.95/month without discounts. The start plan offers 100GB bandwidth per month. It’s more than sufficient for medium-sized sites.
MaxCDN is very easy to set up and use. Setting up MaxCDN on WordPress sites using W3 Total Cache requires 5 minutes of time at most.
MaxCDN has data centers around the world. They have numerous servers (edge locations and peer locations) all over North America and Europe. New edge locations are planned in various parts of Asia.

Benefits:

As well as site loading speed increasing, MaxCDN will have a big impact on user experience on your site. Due to pages loading much quicker, this will help reduce bounce rate and keep people on your site for longer. This in turn will lead to more pageviews as people will be more willing to check out your other content that you have on your site.

One of the reasons we decided to make changes to our site was because we had had some server issues. On a couple of occasions our server was under pressure at our busy periods, leading to our site crashing a couple of times. MaxCDN offers better crash resistance by distributing the load from your server across their own set of servers. So, your site shouldn’t have as many (if any) problems like this again.

Like we have said, search engines are putting more emphasis on site speed, so the faster your site loads; it will have a positive impact on your SEO. Site speed can help you rank higher in the search engines, which can help drive more traffic to your site.

Competitive Pricing

MaxCDN offers a very reasonable pricing despite its brand value. An annual subscription will get two months free. Plans start at 9 USD per month, with a limit of 2 zones. The same plan would cost you 90 USD annually (instead of the usual 108 USD).

High volume pricing starts at 499 USD/month for 10TB, including a 1 on 1 setup call. And guess what, the annual discount applies here too!

Who Should Use MaxCDN?

Well, anyone really! If you have a website with a global audience, it can help your site out significantly. This is even more relevant if you have a very large website with lots of content.

One of the great things about MaxCDN is that it is easy to integrate with WordPress. You can just set up an account and install MaxCDN on WordPress pretty easily.