Want to know how to setup QUIC.cloud CDN on your WordPress website ?, in this post i’m going to be showing you an easy step by step guide on how to do so..
Overview of Quic.cloud cdn
QUIC.cloud is a content delivery network (CDN) which was created by LiteSpeed technologies and only accessible to WordPress website.
The service are available only to websites thats uses LiteSpeed servers. and there’s an available WordPress plugin which is the (LiteSpeed Cache plugin) which you can use to establish the connection between your WordPress Website and the QUIC.cloud Network.
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Requirements
- WordPress Website
- LiteSpeed Cache WordPress Plugin
once you have the above mentioned ready, that is a Working WordPress Website and have installed LiteSpeed cache plugin, you can proceed with the setup of the quic cloud cdn.
How to link WordPress to Quic.Cloud CDN
- Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
- Locate the LiteSpeed Cache Plugin > General tab.
- under the general tab click on request domain key
After that you’ll see a message saying requested, which means your request has been sent, next > Refresh the page and you’ll see your domain key.
Linking Your Website to Quic .cloud
after completing the above step you’ll then have the option to link your WordPress website to quic.cloud.
Just Click on the Button Link to QUIC.cloud.
You will then be redirected to QUIC.cloud website to login or sign up.
Enter your Email address to login or sign-up, if you already have an account with QUIC.cloud your site will then be automatically added and you’ll be redirected back to your WordPress Dashboard.
A new button will then appear (Visit my Dashboard on QUIC.cloud) this confirms that your WordPress website is now linked to QUIC.cloud
Now your website is linked to Quick.cloud and is already using some of the features which includes image optimizations and critical CSS generation but we still need to make some configurations before we can start using the CDN service. we will have to make some DNS Changes.
Enable QUIC.cloud CDN
Firs you need to enable the use of CDN from your WordPress Dshboard.
- Login to your WordPress Dashboard
- Goto LiteSpeed Cache Tab
- Click on CDN
- Click the toggle to > ON > and Click on > Save Changes
Login back to your QUIC.cloud Dashboard and goto the CDN Tab,
Once you click on Enable CDN, QUIC.cloud CDN will be enabled on your website and you will be provided with a CNAME, you will have to point your Domain to the provided CNAME in order to use Full QUIC.cloud CDN Services.
Updating Your DNS Records
after you must have been provided with the CNAME the next thing you need to do is to goto your DNS management tool and insert the CNAME record given to you by QUIC.cloud.
To do this; Login to your CPanel > Locate Zone Editor under > Domains.
You will be taken to the DNS Zone editor page, once you are there click on the CNAME record on the domain you wish to add the record to (that is the domain you are adding quic.cloud cdn services to).
Now a popup will appear and there you can insert the Record given to you from the QUIC.cloud dashboard.
In the field “Name” just put quic and in the CNAME field, insert the record and click on Add A CNAME Record.
Verify is QUIC.cloud CDN is enabled.
You can verify if your integration to the QUIC.cloud CDN service was successful by doing a HTTP/3 check simply visit http3check.net, put in your website address and click on check.
You should be able to see QUIC is supported and HTTP/3 is supported which means you website is now connected to QUIC.cloud CDN service.
