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CDN

Enable Hostinger's CDN in hPanel to serve static assets from edge locations worldwide, purge cached files, and use built-in optimization and security controls.

A CDN serves static assets from locations close to your visitors, cutting load time for distant users. Find it under Performance → CDN in your website dashboard. Available on Premium plans and higher; on some plans it's enabled automatically for new sites.

Enable CDN

  1. Open your website dashboard.

  2. Go to Performance → CDN.

  3. Enable it for your domain.

Static assets route through the CDN automatically — no code changes. Controls are per domain, so a site with several domains can have different settings for each.

Disable CDN

Performance → CDN → disable for the domain.

Purge the CDN cache

After updating assets, purge so the CDN fetches fresh copies.

  1. Go to CDN.

  2. Click Purge cache.

Full refresh may take a few minutes to propagate globally.

What the CDN caches

Static files:

  • Images (.jpg, .png, .gif, .webp, .svg)

  • CSS

  • JavaScript

  • Fonts

  • Videos and media

Dynamic content (PHP pages, form posts, API responses) is never CDN-cached — it always goes to your origin.

Optimization settings

The CDN panel includes asset-optimization options you can toggle per domain — compression and related speed features. Pair them with PageSpeed test runs to measure the effect.

Security controls

Beyond caching, the CDN panel includes access controls enforced at the edge:

  • IP block list — block specific IP addresses before they reach your site.

  • Traffic blocking by country — block visitors from selected countries, or switch to Allowed countries mode to permit only the countries you list.

Warning: In Allowed-countries mode, visitors from every unlisted country are blocked — double-check the list includes all your real audiences (and your own location).

Analytics

The CDN panel shows per-domain metrics: requests served by the CDN, bandwidth saved, and cache performance. Use them to confirm the CDN is actually absorbing traffic after you enable it.

SSL

CDN-served assets are delivered over HTTPS when your site uses SSL.

Last updated: July 22, 2026

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