---
title: CDN Sponsored By NetDNA
date: 2010-11-22 18:40:51
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/11/22/cdn-sponsored-by-netdna/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "NetDNA, a Content Distribution Network company, is now sponsoring lesterchan.net, so I'm offloading all my static images, CSS and JavaScript to their CDN. They run ten data centres worldwide and serve over 200 large sites, including Mashable and SitePoint."
categories:
  - Site
tags:
  - CDN
  - NetDNA
  - sponsorship
---

NetDNA, a Content Distribution Network (CDN) company, is now sponsoring [lesterchan.net](https://lesterchan.net/)! So now I am offloading all my static files (Images, CSS & JavaScript) to NetDNA’s CDN services.

They have 10 data centers around the world and provide CDN services for more than 200 large websites such as:

- [Mashable.com](https://mashable.com/)
- [ Templatemonster.com](https://www.templatemonster.com/)
- [BuySellAds.com](https://www.buysellads.com/)
- [Uservoice.com](https://uservoice.com/)
- [SitePoint.com](https://www.sitepoint.com/)
- [Earthday.org](https://www.earthday.org/)
- [VentureBeat.com](https://venturebeat.com/)
- Mahalo.com

Check out their Customers Page that comes with case studies.

## Setting Up

This is my first time setting up a CDN and it took me only 30 minutes to do it and after that the bulk of the time is waiting for [Starhub](https://www.starhub.com/) DNS servers to get refreshed/flush so that my static.lesterchan.net CNAME works. If you are using WordPress (like me), the plugin, [W3 Total Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/), makes it a no brainer to hook onto NetDNA’s CDN. Just download W3 Total Cache, upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder and read the [Installation Guide](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/#installation).

[![web site acceleration](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5197548005_2f87014bd1_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4089/5197548005_82e53b8e9f_o.jpg "web site acceleration")

[![web site acceleration](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5198151674_9fcdb4be31_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4091/5198151674_0c7298d145_o.jpg "web site acceleration")

[![web site acceleration](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5198121550_67c1e50e58_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4106/5198121550_742e3d3e98_o.jpg "web site acceleration")

[![web site acceleration](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5198122126_143ff20ccb_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4154/5198122126_2abc0a371c_o.jpg "web site acceleration")

[![web site acceleration](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5197526025_ee013d9e43_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4108/5197526025_aa9e85782c_o.jpg "web site acceleration")

And that is it! You now have a working CDN for your WordPress powered site! You may want to play around with W3 Total Cache settings to further optimize your site through JS/CSS Minification, Object Cache, Database Cache, etc.

Do drop NetDNA a visit if you need CDN services for your website. You can request a quotation by filling in this form.