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Understand the basics, then decide with confidence

No jargon, no prior experience needed. These guides explain what a CDN is, what our Managed Platforms do (and whether you can use them as hosting), what Docker is in everyday terms, and how the pieces fit together — each is a 5–10 minute read.

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CDN basics

7 min read

What is a CDN — and why would I use one?

How content delivery networks make sites faster, more reliable and safer, in plain language.
8 min read

What are Managed Platforms? Can I use them as hosting?

Run WordPress, PHP apps or any container — and yes, use it as your hosting. What it does and does not do.
6 min read

What is CDN.com.tr and why use it?

CDN, hosting platforms, DNS, automatic SSL and object storage under one roof — who it is for and how to start.
6 min read

What is DNS — and how to change your DNS records

DNS is the internet's address book. What it is, how nameservers and records work, and how to change them safely.
7 min read

How to set up a CDN for your website

CDN setup is mostly a DNS change — the fast managed way vs self-hosting, and the exact steps.
6 min read

Free CDN: what is really free and what to watch for

What free CDN tiers offer, their catches, and how a risk-free trial lets you test a full CDN.
8 min read

How to choose a CDN provider

What actually matters — performance near your users, security, features, pricing and support — and why a Turkey-based CDN can be the best fit.
7 min read

How to set up DNS for a CDN

How DNS and a CDN fit together, the A and CNAME records involved, pointing your domain, and how cdn.com.tr automates DNS and SSL.

Performance & caching

11 min read

How to Speed Up a WordPress Site: The Complete Guide

The WordPress-side fixes and the CDN side, step by step: caching, next-gen images and the free CDNTR plugin.
9 min read

Why Is My Website Slow? Causes and Fixes

Measure the real problem with Core Web Vitals and TTFB, understand the causes, and apply the fixes that move the numbers — including where a CDN helps.
8 min read

Image Optimization: Speed Up Your Site with WebP & AVIF

Right-size, next-gen formats, lazy-load and CDN delivery — the four moves that cut image weight, plus free automatic WebP/AVIF conversion.
8 min read

How to purge CDN cache without breaking your site

Exact, prefix and variant purges explained — when to clear everything, why a purge seemed not to work, and how to stop needing them.
9 min read

Cache-Control and max-age: a practical guide

max-age, s-maxage, no-cache vs no-store, immutable and stale-while-revalidate — with copy-paste recipes for pages, assets and APIs.
7 min read

Brotli vs Gzip: which compression should your site use?

How HTTP compression negotiates, where Brotli genuinely beats Gzip, what never to compress, and the curl commands to verify what you send.
8 min read

301 vs 302: redirects, SEO, and the mistakes that stick

What engines do with each, why browsers can cache a 301 forever, redirect chains, and auditing yours with curl.
9 min read

Core Web Vitals: fixing LCP, INP and CLS where it counts

What each vital really measures, field vs lab data, and fixes ranked by impact — with the CDN-side levers that move LCP most.
8 min read

HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3: what actually changed

What each protocol step really fixed, honest sizing of the gains, and how to check what your site speaks.

Security & SSL

6 min read

Free SSL Certificates — what they are and how to get one

What SSL does, why it is free today, and how to get automatic SSL that renews itself.
7 min read

What is a WAF (Web Application Firewall)?

How a WAF blocks SQL injection, XSS and bad bots — and why an edge WAF with DDoS protection matters.
8 min read

What is DDoS protection (and why every site needs it)

How DDoS attacks work, why the edge is the right place to stop them, how a WAF fits in, and how cdn.com.tr keeps your site online automatically.
8 min read

Rate limiting: stop abuse without blocking customers

How to pick a limit that stops scrapers and brute force without breaking real users, why the edge is the right place, and how it differs from a WAF.
6 min read

Hotlink protection: stop other sites using your bandwidth

What hotlinking silently costs, how Referer checks work and their honest limits, and enabling it per rule without breaking legitimate embeds.

Docker, deploys & platforms

7 min read

What is Docker (and do I need it)?

Containers, images and docker-compose explained simply — and how to use the platform with or without Docker.
8 min read

The CDN API: automate your content delivery

Purge cache after a deploy, manage domains and SSL, read analytics and wire the CDN into CI/CD with the cdn.com.tr REST API.
9 min read

Deploy a Docker container on the CDN

Run your Docker image as a managed container app and serve it through the CDN edge — custom domain, automatic HTTPS, cache and WAF. Deploy from the panel, the cdnctl CLI or straight from Git.
8 min read

How to Deploy a Next.js App on cdn.com.tr

Containerize your Next.js app, push to Git, and serve it from the CDN edge with a custom domain and automatic HTTPS — no servers to manage.
9 min read

How to Deploy a Laravel App on cdn.com.tr

Two ways to ship Laravel to production — a managed PHP runtime or your own container from Git — with a managed database, automatic HTTPS and a WAF.
8 min read

Deploy a Multi-Service App with Docker Compose

Turn a docker-compose.yml into managed container apps and add-ons — preview the plan with cdnctl, then apply. No cluster, no database to babysit.
9 min read

Docker hosting: where should your container actually run?

VPS, Kubernetes or a managed platform compared by the hours they cost — plus the three routes onto cdn.com.tr depending on what you already have.
9 min read

Running Dokku or Coolify vs a managed git-push platform

What self-hosted PaaS does well, what operating it really costs, and how to keep push-to-deploy without being the platform team.
8 min read

What is Redis? Speed up your application with an in-memory cache

What an in-memory cache solves (and what it does not), cache-aside and sessions, and one-command managed Redis.
8 min read

Deploy from Git: push to your branch, the new version goes live

What happens between your push and the live app, what your repo needs, branch strategy, and how to diagnose a push that does nothing.

Storage & delivery

8 min read

CDN file storage: serve files without your own origin

Host static files and media on the CDN and serve them from the edge — upload from the panel or with the cdnctl CLI, and step up to S3 object storage when you need it.
12 min read

How to host your own signed APT and YUM repository on a CDN

Ship your Linux tool so 'apt-get install' just works: build a signed APT/YUM repo, serve it from the edge, and put upgrades on the cycle users already run.
9 min read

What is object storage? S3-compatible storage, explained

Objects, buckets, access keys and endpoints — how S3-compatible storage works, with real AWS CLI examples and when a CDN belongs in front.
10 min read

Running MinIO yourself vs managed S3-compatible storage

An honest look at what operating MinIO really costs, when self-hosting is right — and the one-command mc mirror migration if it is not.
9 min read

Video CDN: how HLS delivery actually works

A stream is a playlist and a folder of static files — the cache rules that matter, a worked ffmpeg-to-edge example, and an honest section on live.

Real-world cases

11 min read

CDN for E-commerce: a practical setup guide

Step-by-step: put your store behind the CDN, write the cache rule for product images, purge on price changes, automate with cdnctl and prepare for campaign day.
9 min read

How to Distribute Game Clients and Patches With a CDN

Upload builds once and serve clients, patches and assets to every player from the edge — versioned, resumable, and DDoS-shielded on launch day.
9 min read

Speed Up Mobile App Content and APIs With a CDN

Serve app images, media and asset packs from the edge, cache the API responses that are safe to cache, push remote config instantly, and shield your API from spikes.
9 min read

Live polls at scale: the cache-and-purge pattern

Every viewer asks for the same result at the same second. Cache it at the edge and purge on each update — one origin hit per change, not per viewer.
7 min read

Case study: an image-heavy fashion store, 3.5x faster from the edge

Real numbers from a live store: 1-year image TTLs, fbclid-normalized HTML caching, Brotli, Redis and WAF.

More guides

9 min read

Your AI built a working app — here is how it goes live

From a project folder to a live HTTPS URL with one CLI: no git, no registry, and safety checks that run before your code leaves the machine.
7 min read

cdnctl init → deploy: from project folder to live URL

The hands-on tutorial with real command outputs: install, init, check, deploy — and what to do when something fails.
7 min read

Give your AI agent deploy access — not your panel password

Deploy-only tokens and MCP: single account, deploy surface only, no billing, no delete — every boundary verified with real requests.