Fastly CDN for WordPress

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At WPhost, we deliver unparalleled WordPress speed and performance, powered by our free, built-in global Fastly CDN. Unlike standard CDNs, our Fastly integration offers advanced full-page caching, including the full HTML of your pages, which vastly improves your Time to First Byte (TTFB) – a critical factor for SEO.

With Fastly’s leading edge cloud platform and its expansive network of 120 global nodes, your WordPress site’s dynamic assets are accelerated, and its delivery is optimised for even unpredictably changing content, ensuring lightning-fast page load speeds for every visitor, everywhere. This premium CDN is included with most WPhost plans, starting from our entry-level options, and our team of WordPress experts handles the full setup for you, so you can simply enjoy the speed.

For a deeper understanding of how these networks improve site performance and overall CDN concepts, refer to our comprehensive WordPress CDN guide. To further accelerate your site beyond CDN benefits, explore our comprehensive WordPress speed optimisation services.

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Fastly CDN logo, indicating Fastly powers WPhost's WordPress hosting.
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Diagram illustrating Fastly's real-time caching and instant purging technology for WordPress content updates.
This diagram illustrates Fastly's advanced real-time caching and instant purging, ensuring your WordPress content updates globally in just 150 milliseconds.

Real-time Caching and Instant Purging

A core differentiator of Fastly’s architecture is its unmatched caching and instant purging technology. This powerful feature allows you to cache and invalidate your WordPress content almost as soon as it’s updated on your origin—within an unparalleled 150 milliseconds or less across their entire global network. This speed is considerably faster than many other CDNs.

Anytime your files change or a WordPress post or page is updated, Fastly instantly retrieves an updated copy from your origin server and serves it globally as soon as it’s live on your web server, ensuring your users always see the latest content.

For eCommerce sites, WPhost takes this a step further by automatically applying WooCommerce caching exclusions. This optimises performance while guaranteeing correct functionality for dynamic areas like the cart, checkout, and user account pages. Discover how WPhost’s optimised WooCommerce hosting eliminates the need for manual configuration or extra plugins.

Fastly's Global Edge Cloud Architecture

Fastly has revolutionised content delivery by placing powerful Points of Presence (POPs) at strategic locations around the world. Unlike traditional architectures, Fastly’s edge cloud platform leverages Tier 1 transit and solid-state drive (SSD) powered servers. Their engineering team is singularly focused on optimising for speed, building a blazing-fast network that achieves comprehensive global reach with remarkable efficiency.

Fastly’s high-density POPs are designed to serve more from cache for static and often-requested content, while efficiently routing dynamic and event-driven content. This significantly improves your cache hit ratio and results in superior user experiences.

Fastly CDN network map last updated: 31 March 2025

Fastly's Extensive Global Network Locations

Fastly’s vast network ensures your content is delivered from the closest possible edge to your users, no matter where they are. While we’ve highlighted some key regions, Fastly’s footprint spans across numerous strategic locations worldwide.

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Fastly's expansive global network ensures content delivery from the closest edge location.
New Zealand & Australia
  • Auckland
  • Wellington
  • Christchurch
  • Adelaide
  • Brisbane
  • Melbourne
  • Perth
  • Sydney*
Asia
  • Bangkok
  • Chennai
  • Dubai
  • Fujairah
  • Hong Kong
  • Hyderabad
  • Kolkata
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Manila
  • Mumbai
  • New Delhi
  • Osaka
  • Seoul
  • Singapore*
  • Tokyo*
North America
  • Ashburn*
  • Atlanta*
  • Boston
  • Calgary
  • Chicago*
  • Columbus
  • Dallas*
  • Denver
  • Detroit
  • Honolulu
  • Houston
  • Jacksonville
  • Kansas City
  • Los Angeles*
  • Miami
  • Minneapolis
  • Montreal
  • New York*
  • Phoenix
  • Portland
  • Querétaro
  • San Jose*
  • Seattle*
  • St Louis
  • Toronto
  • Vancouver
South America
  • Bogota
  • Buenos Aires
  • Curitiba
  • Fortaleza
  • Lima
  • São Paulo*
  • Santiago
  • Rio de Janeiro
Europe
  • Amsterdam
  • Copenhagen
  • Brussels
  • Dublin
  • Frankfurt*
  • Helsinki
  • Lisbon
  • London*
  • Madrid
  • Manchester
  • Marseille
  • Milan
  • Munich
  • Oslo
  • Palermo
  • Paris*
  • Rome
  • Sofia
  • Stockholm
  • Vienna
Africa
  • Accra
  • Cape Town
  • Johannesburg

*Multiple POPs (Points of Presence)

Why Fastly is the Superior CDN Choice

In a crowded CDN landscape, Fastly consistently stands out as a truly superior choice, especially for demanding platforms like WordPress. Fastly goes beyond traditional content delivery, transforming edge computing, content delivery, and cloud security into a modern, real-time experience. Its innovative approach focuses on speed and control at the very edge of the internet, precisely where your users connect.

Fastly’s architecture is meticulously built for the rigorous demands of the modern web. It provides not just blazing speed and robust security, but also an unparalleled level of agility and programmability. This empowers your WordPress site with real-time content updates, dynamic content acceleration, and resilient performance that static, legacy CDNs simply can’t match. By choosing WPhost, you’re leveraging Fastly’s cutting-edge edge cloud platform to accelerate your business, enhance user satisfaction, and maintain a crucial competitive edge. If you’re exploring alternative CDN options for your WordPress site, you can explore Cloudflare CDN for WordPress for another solution.

Learn more in the official ‘Why Fastly’ video:

This video succinctly demonstrates Fastly’s unique approach to content delivery, highlighting its unparalleled speed, granular control, and advanced security features. Witness how Fastly’s cutting-edge edge cloud platform revolutionises the online experience, ensuring your WordPress website performs at its absolute peak for every user, every time.

Enhanced Security at the Edge with Fastly

While Fastly is renowned for its incredible speed, its robust edge cloud platform also serves as a formidable security powerhouse for your WordPress site. By operating at the network’s edge, closer to your users and further from your origin server, Fastly provides immediate, real-time protection against a multitude of online threats.

This advanced security infrastructure ensures your WordPress website remains online, performing optimally, and protected from malicious activity. Fastly offers comprehensive security capabilities, including:

  • Advanced DDoS Protection: Fastly's global network and massive capacity are designed to absorb and mitigate even the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, preventing them from ever reaching your origin server and ensuring your WordPress site remains accessible.
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) Capabilities: Protect your WordPress application from common web vulnerabilities and exploits such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other OWASP Top 10 threats, filtering malicious traffic before it impacts your site.
  • TLS/SSL Termination at the Edge: By handling SSL/TLS encryption and decryption at its edge servers, Fastly not only offloads the cryptographic burden from your origin but also ensures secure, encrypted connections are established as close to your users as possible, improving both security and speed.
  • Origin Shielding: Fastly acts as a protective shield for your WordPress origin server, reducing direct attack vectors and preventing excessive requests from overwhelming your core infrastructure.
  • Intelligent Rate Limiting: Prevent brute-force login attempts, content scraping, and other abusive bot traffic by intelligently detecting and limiting suspicious request rates at the edge.

With WPhost’s integration of Fastly, your WordPress website benefits from this multi-layered, real-time security, safeguarding your data and ensuring continuous availability. To learn more about our comprehensive approach to safeguarding your site, explore our robust WordPress security solutions.

Fastly CDN for WordPress FAQs

Have more questions about how Fastly CDN supercharges your WordPress website? Find answers to commonly asked questions below:

Is Fastly CDN included with WPhost plans?

Yes, WPhost proudly includes Fastly's global CDN as a free, built-in feature on most of our WordPress hosting plans, even our entry-level tiers, ensuring you get top-tier performance without additional cost.

How does Fastly CDN integrate with my existing WordPress site?

Integration is seamless and handled entirely by our team of WordPress experts. We manage the full setup, ensuring Fastly is configured perfectly to accelerate your specific WordPress site without any effort on your part.

What kind of WordPress websites benefit most from Fastly CDN?

While all WordPress sites will see performance improvements, Fastly CDN is especially beneficial for websites with high traffic, a global audience, or significant amounts of dynamic content that benefits from Fastly's accelerated delivery, ensuring rapid load times for every visitor, everywhere.

How does Fastly CDN improve my WordPress site's SEO?

Fastly significantly boosts your WordPress site's SEO by vastly improving page load speeds and Time to First Byte (TTFB) – critical ranking factors. Faster sites also lead to better user experience, lower bounce rates, and higher engagement, all of which positively influence search engine rankings.

Can I manage Fastly CDN settings myself with WPhost?

With WPhost, your Fastly CDN integration is fully managed by our WordPress experts. This means we handle all the complex configuration, optimisation, and ongoing maintenance for you, ensuring your site always benefits from peak performance without requiring any technical input on your part.

What is Time to First Byte (TTFB) and how does Fastly improve it for WordPress?

Time to First Byte (TTFB) is a key web performance metric that measures how long it takes for a user's browser to receive the first byte of content from your server. Fastly drastically improves TTFB for WordPress sites through its full-page caching, including HTML, delivering content from the closest edge server, significantly reducing latency and boosting your site's SEO.

Ready to Experience Unrivalled WordPress Performance?

Stop compromising on speed, security, and user experience. With WPhost’s seamlessly integrated Fastly CDN, your WordPress website will deliver lightning-fast content to every visitor, enhance your SEO, and stay protected by a powerful global edge network. It’s time to elevate your online presence and provide an exceptional experience.

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