Facing product download dilemma/issues

[gorangrooves]

@ustk a CDN should be helpful since files are distributed to several "edge" locations around the world and get served to end users from the location closest to them.

The CDN plugin I mentioned here works great. I use it to serve all images, videos, and products from the CDN.

Make sure your website uses HTTP2 protocol, as multiple resources get served at the same time, as opposed to one-by-one, thus speeding up your website.

[clevername27]

@d-healey Another vote for S3

[gorangrooves]

@clevername27 Have you tried the Digital Ocean CDN?

[clevername27]

@gorangrooves I have not, no.

[gorangrooves]

@clevername27 Then your vote doesn't count. Sorry.

[ustk]

@gorangrooves yeah I understand the principle of CDNs and this is exactly why I jumped into it when realising the slowness of my website. Then after some tests and readings, I realised that only a few specific websites actually need one, and the fact that it is cached in several places is in the end not a good argument (which is weird to hear at first, I agree) A good optimisation of the website is way better than a CDN with a "natively messy and not optimised wordpress" website.

[gorangrooves]

@ustk A CDN is not going to compensate for other shortcomings. It should be used in conjunction with and as part of the overall optimization process. I recommend running the tests and checking out the recommendations in browser dev tools.

I've done a fair amount of this over the years. The most critical things that make the biggest impact are the size of images, caching of everything that can be cached, GZIP compression, lazy load of images and videos, and HTTP2 protocol. Of course, a good server is very important.

Years ago, before I delved into all of this, I was working on a website and wondering why it was taking ages to load (50 sec). Then I realized my images were like 1.5MB each Once I brought them down to 120KB each and implemented the other optimizations, the website has been loading instantly ever since.

[d.healey]

@gorangrooves said in Facing product download dilemma/issues:

Digital Ocean CDN

The price looks to be the same as S3 so I'm not sure I see an advantage to using it, other than not having to deal with AWS stuff (but I already have that set up and use it for mail too).

[gorangrooves]

@d-healey For you, if you are already on S3 and set up, there would be no advantage.
For somebody new, the advantage of it is that it is a lot simpler and easier to use.

I use both for a couple of websites I run, so I am able to compare them.

[ustk]

Alright guys, so finally Bunny CDN has an API for the storage part with secure/unique download link generation, so I go with it. (might not be the best but it's not the question for now, and since I will probably never have big sample based instruments but more DSP stuff, the size does not matter

[gorangrooves]

@ustk yeah, that's what she said.