For you who have successfully run your WordPress blog, the biggest cost is the server cost, which is caused by the unreasonable use of cloud storage. Today I will tell you how to use cloud storage to make your WordPress site not only faster, but also save more than half of the money.

Where is the server?

First of all, where is the server? In fact, the most expensive part of the server cost is bandwidth. We can go to the price calculators of various virtual machine manufacturers to make a simple comparison. Compared with other hosts with the same configuration of 5M bandwidth and 10M bandwidth, the price difference can reach about 5000 yuan. So the simplest way to save server costs is to find ways to save bandwidth.

How to save bandwidth? In fact, this is very simple. It is to achieve the separation of static and dynamic, and put media resources such as pictures and videos, as well as static resources such as JS and CSS on cloud storage. Here is a special recommendation, VeImageX of byte's volcanic engine They just launched, and now they offer a lot of discounts. My calculation price is also the cheapest one in cloud storage. See the second half of the article for specific calculation.

After using cloud storage, when users access web pages, the bandwidth consumed on their servers is plain text web content, and the bandwidth resources required are very small.

For example, the Peanut Store, an e-commerce applet SaaS platform that I operate now, has more than 20000 merchants, but the server resources we rely on at present are only one server and one database, and the bandwidth is only 4M. The server cost is controlled within 30000 yuan a year. Is it super economical? I think it's super awesome!

So the first step to save server costs is to start using cloud storage. Here is the tutorial "WordPress Blog uses volcanic engine veImageX for static resource CDN acceleration". You just need to be patient and follow the tutorial step by step to configure it easily.

The way to save money in veImageX

After using the veImageX of the volcanic engine, the traffic of all the media resources and static resources of our website has been diverted to the CDN of the volcanic engine. This way, the website is not only faster, it can be said that the speed of your WordPress site can fly, but also the demand for server bandwidth resources has been greatly reduced, saving you a lot of money.

For example, for a simple web page, the size of the page is between 500K and 1M, while the content of the plain text web page is only 5-10K, which has saved 100 times. If there are more pages with static resources such as pictures, the savings will be amazing. As shown in the following figure, for the homepage of the blog "I love cooking fish in water", the pure document page is only 6.8K, and the rest are pictures and other static resources.

According to the calculation of the peanut store, which uses large picture users, the cost of the server is saved by at least 50000 yuan every year, more than half. This is because of the CDN diversion, the HTTP requests of our own servers are reduced to 1/10 of the original, and the bandwidth is less than 1/100 of the original. In addition, our servers have enabled Memcached caching, A single server can handle very large requests, which is why 4M can handle more than 20000 merchants, one server and one database.

So as long as you use the veImageX of the volcanic engine, you can immediately start to save money. It can divert most of the traffic on the server, significantly reduce the server bandwidth, and save money immediately. In addition, veImageX charges very cheap, and the cost of saving bandwidth is only about one tenth of that of paying for veImageX.

VeImageX is very cheap

Since veImageX charges are very cheap, how cheap is it? Let's first talk about its charging rules, cloud storage and other services are a little complicated, but rest assured, I can simplify the complexity and make it clear in a few words.

First, we store images and other resources on its server, which requires storage costs:

Generally, if a WordPress user has a 100GB image resource, it is a big service. Let's assume that 100GB resources need to be stored in veImageX. From the above figure, it is about 130 yuan a year.

When users access our images and other resources stored on veImageX, it will involve CDN distribution fees. The distribution fees can choose traffic billing or bandwidth billing. For ordinary users, it is more cost-effective to choose traffic billing:

According to most of the WordPress traffic, it should be between 10GB-10TB. Assuming that your site has high traffic, 5GB-10GB traffic every day, less than 200GB in a month. For the convenience of later calculation, 2TB traffic in a year, which is already very large, about 430 yuan a year.

Of course, there are some image processing fees, but the basic processing of traffic below 20TB per month is free, and the image processing fee is only charged once. In the future, the same format request will not be charged, so it can be simply understood as free.

Can save more money

It can be seen from the above that a WordPress site with a considerable amount of traffic costs only 130+430=560 a year. In fact, it can save more money as long as you learn the following two tips:

1. Convert the image to webp/avif format.

WebP is a new image compression format proposed by Google as early as 2010. According to various rumors on the Internet, the size of images can be reduced by 30% - 50%.

Demo according to veImageX（ //imagexdemo.volcengine.com ）When the image compression quality is 75, as shown in the figure below, 286KB images are only 11KB after compression, which can achieve more than 90% compression, so the traffic cost of the website will also be reduced to less than 10% of the original.

In addition, veImageX also provides conversion to more efficient compression formats such as avif, which can reduce the volume by 30% on the basis of WebP.

2. Purchase resource package

According to the above rough statistics, for a WordPress site that already has considerable traffic, about 100GB of storage and 2TB of traffic a year, the approximate cost is about 130+430=560 yuan, which is very cost-effective compared with the thousands of dollars saved by saving server bandwidth.

What if you want to continue saving money? You can also purchase the resource package of veImageX, which is also divided into storage and traffic:

First, store the resource package. I listed the resource packages below 500GB. According to the above calculation, the 100GB 12 month valid traffic package is suitable for our previous assumption, 89.10 yuan, more than 30% cheaper than the original 130 yuan.

For the traffic resource package, I listed the resource packages below 5TB. According to the above calculation, two 1TB 6-month traffic packages are enough, 162x2=324 yuan, more than 24% cheaper than the original 430 yuan.

So after using the resource package, it adds up to about 413 yuan, 26% cheaper than the original 560 yuan. With WebP compression, it may require less traffic, The money saved can only be more 。

Therefore, a reasonable purchase of the resource package is equivalent to less than 80% of the original cost. You can purchase 1TB of traffic first, and then purchase it when it is almost used up, according to the actual use of your site, such as 2TB of traffic.

Having said so much, you should know how to do it, that is, go to launch the veImageX of the volcanic engine as soon as possible, and now the volcanic engine is in the process of launching a new promotion, with a special promotion of resource packs, which can be purchased for 1 yuan 100GB traffic And 1 yuan purchase 50GB storage, Other traffic packages are folded at 8 points.

The "CDN acceleration" function of WPJAM Basic has perfectly integrated veImageX. I also wrote a very detailed tutorial on "WordPress Blog Using Volcano Engine veImageX for Static Resource CDN Acceleration". It can be done step by step without writing any code.

As a special reminder, click my invitation link when opening（ //wpjam.com/go/volc-imagex ）, fill in my invitation code: CLEMNL , can receive benefits: monthly free amount (10GB traffic+10GB storage+20TB basic processing)+free HTTPS access+free back to source traffic.