Using a Content Delivery Network with phpBB

With millions of active users and a dedicated programming community phpBB has grown to be one of the world's most popular bulletin board applications. Many users and especially forum Webmasters like phpBB because of its extensive customization options available in the administration panel. Designed for ease of use and reliability phpBB is a great application to use and install. With its integration into cPanels' Fantastico as a 1click install it user community has grown by leaps and bounds. But with its great success, have come many complaints and problems that the user and development community have brought to light.

One such issue has been security and the other has been speed and reliability. While there will always be security problems with online software, speed is something that MaxCDN has taken on as a challenge to fix. Our dedicated MaxCDN development team has been working on a phpBB CDN plug-in to incorporate MaxCDNs' full range of content delivery network services. One of our goals is to speed up delivery of phpBB by creating a phpBB CDN module that accelerates the static content found in phpBBs' extensive styles database. We will also create an intuitive CDN administration panel so that phpBB users can activate and deactivate MaxCDN content delivery network services on the fly. Bullet board administrators will have the ability to pull static content from their own origin serve or have the ability to offload that same static content to a MaxCDN Push Zone FTP location. By implementing the phpBB CDN plug-in a Website owner can guarantee a site speed increase which will lead to better service and in the long run a happier user community.