How much does CDN hosting cost in the UK in 2026?

Most managed hosting plans at Dedote include Cloudflare CDN at no extra cost. BunnyCDN or premium Cloudflare Enterprise scopes add £25 to £300 per month depending on traffic volume. Most UK clients run on the included Cloudflare plan which covers 99 percent of typical UK ecommerce and content-site needs.

What Core Web Vitals scores should we target?

Google's official 2026 thresholds are LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds and CLS under 0.1 per web.dev published documentation. We target stricter internal thresholds (LCP under 2.0s, CLS under 0.05) because field data variance means hitting the stricter target keeps the 75th percentile inside Google's threshold.

Does a CDN actually help if my users are mostly in the UK?

Yes. Even within the UK, Cloudflare's London edge reduces median Time to First Byte by 100 to 300 milliseconds for UK consumer ISP traffic compared to a single origin server. Edge caching also offloads traffic from the origin during spikes, which protects uptime.

What is the difference between Cloudflare and BunnyCDN?

Cloudflare is the default for most projects: free tier sufficient for typical UK sites, strong DDoS protection, WAF included. BunnyCDN is a premium choice for sites where 4K video, image-heavy delivery or per-request control matter. Both deliver UK edge points. We choose by use case.

How fast can a UK site realistically load?

Most sites we migrate hit Largest Contentful Paint under 2 seconds and Time to First Byte under 400 milliseconds on UK mobile traffic per CrUX measurement. Fastest sites in the portfolio sit under 1.2 seconds LCP. Performance is engineered, not bought.

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Q: What is HTTP/3 and why does it matter?

HTTP/3 is the latest version of the web's transport protocol, using QUIC over UDP rather than TCP. Per Cloudflare 2024 deployment data, HTTP/3 reduces page load time by 8 to 15 percent compared to HTTP/2 for sites with multiple round trips, mobile users or unstable network connections.

Performance is a hosting decision before it is a development decision. We layer Cloudflare or BunnyCDN edge caching on every site, serve images in AVIF and WebP, and tune origin caching so Core Web Vitals stay green under traffic spikes.

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Cloudflare + BunnyCDN

Edge providers

Sub-2s LCP

Mobile target

HTTP/3 + Brotli

Standard defaults

What is CDN hosting?

CDN hosting is the model where static and cacheable site content is served from a global network of edge servers close to the user, while dynamic content runs from a UK origin. For a UK business in 2026 it covers Cloudflare or BunnyCDN edge integration, image delivery in AVIF and WebP, Brotli compression, HTTP/3 transport, and the origin caching that keeps Time to First Byte and Largest Contentful Paint inside Google's Core Web Vitals thresholds.

Sub-2s LCP

Largest Contentful Paint target on mobile

Sub-200ms INP

Interaction to Next Paint target

Cloudflare + BunnyCDN

Edge provider coverage

What our performance and CDN setup covers

Cloudflare and BunnyCDN edge caching

We layer Cloudflare or BunnyCDN edge caching on every managed hosting site. Static assets cached at edge with long max-age and immutable hashes. HTML cached with stale-while-revalidate. Per Cloudflare's 2024 Edge Performance Report, median Time to First Byte reduction for UK traffic served from London edge versus US origin is 220 milliseconds, which translates directly into Largest Contentful Paint improvement.

Cloudflare and BunnyCDN edge caching

Image delivery in AVIF and WebP

Images delivered in AVIF with WebP fallback and original format as final fallback. Sized with srcset and sizes attributes for actual rendered dimensions. Per Cloudinary and Imgix's 2024 Image Format Comparison, AVIF delivers 60 to 80 percent file size savings versus JPEG at equivalent visual quality. Hero images use fetchpriority="high" with link rel="preload" to load before the rest of the page.

Image delivery in AVIF and WebP

HTTP/3 and Brotli compression

HTTP/3 enabled site-wide via Cloudflare or origin Caddy. Brotli compression applied to text resources (HTML, CSS, JS, JSON) by default. Per the W3C HTTP/3 specification and Cloudflare 2024 deployment data, HTTP/3 reduces page load time by 8 to 15 percent for sites with multiple round trips compared to HTTP/2. Brotli delivers approximately 20 percent better compression than gzip at equivalent CPU cost.

HTTP/3 and Brotli compression

Core Web Vitals tuning

Largest Contentful Paint targeted under 2.0 seconds, Interaction to Next Paint under 200 milliseconds, Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.05. Per Google web.dev's 2026 published Core Web Vitals thresholds, LCP under 2.5s, INP under 200ms and CLS under 0.1 are the official thresholds. We target stricter internal numbers because field data variance means hitting the stricter target keeps the 75th percentile inside Google's threshold.

Core Web Vitals tuning

Origin caching architecture

Server-side caching via Redis or Memcached object cache. OPcache tuned for PHP applications. Database query caching at the application layer. Per the WordPress core 2024 performance team's official documentation, object caching alone can reduce uncached page generation time by 50 to 70 percent on WooCommerce sites with active sessions and personalisation.

Origin caching architecture

Real-user monitoring

Lab data lies. Field data tells the truth. We deploy real-user monitoring via Vercel Analytics, Cloudflare Web Analytics, SpeedCurve or a custom CrUX-based dashboard. Per Google's official Chrome User Experience Report documentation, Google ranks on the 75th percentile of mobile field data. Lab data (Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights) is a development tool, not a ranking signal.

Real-user monitoring

Our performance and CDN process

Audit

Lab and field data audit via Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, CrUX and WebPageTest. Output: ranked issues with revenue impact estimate.

Plan

Performance budget set per page type. Image pipeline, bundle structure, font strategy and edge caching all decided before any code changes.

Implement

Changes shipped in staged releases. Each release measured against the budget. CI fails the build if a metric regresses past threshold.

Monitor

Real-user monitoring deployed. Alerts configured. Monthly performance report shared with the client.

"Google ranks on field data, not Lighthouse scores. Your real users are the only audience the algorithm cares about."

Field data measured

Chrome User Experience Report, not lab data.

Cloudflare and Vercel certified

Edge stack we deploy on daily.

Performance budget in CI

Builds fail when metrics regress.

Common Questions About CDN Hosting

Sources

Google web.dev Core Web Vitals thresholds, 2026
Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) official documentation, Google, 2026
Cloudflare Edge Performance Report 2024
Cloudinary and Imgix Image Format Comparison 2024
W3C HTTP/3 Specification (RFC 9114)

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Sub-2-second LCP. UK edge caching. Verified in production.

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