Is it wise to host images for WooCommerce store on a third-party but not necessary a hosting provider, like uploading store images on WordPress.com or Amazon S3 so that host doesn’t get battered with lots of requests for these images and help speed up the store? Or better/safe to upload the images directly to the media library on my server? What is the best route from your experience?
Answers:
I recommend that you try Bunny CDN. Very affordable and straightforward.
That’s what a CDN is for. Run your domain through cloudflare or hook up another third-party CDN via a plugin. And depending on where you’re hosting you may already have a CDN built in. Check that first.If you have cloudflare in place then just upload the images to your site as normal. The first time they’re requested they’ll pull from your site, then after that the CDN serves up its cached copy of the images (from cloudflare’s servers) instead of hitting your server again.
Don’t upload your images to another service directly as you’d lose functionality, use a CDN to serve the images instead. Cloudflare offers a free CDN, or if it’s just for images then WordPress Jetpack is free too.
Jetpack has a CDN built-in that does exactly this, serves images from wordpress.com.
Cloudflare.com is better, with full HTML caching option, it helps take the load off web servers quite a bit.
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