Hosting Management
Reduce Bandwidth Usage on Shared Hosting
Lower traffic costs with caching, compression, and image optimization.
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Quick wins
- Enable LiteSpeed Cache page caching for all public pages.
- Turn on Cloudflare CDN (orange-cloud your DNS records).
- Compress images and serve WebP via LiteSpeed image optimization.
- Enable Brotli/gzip compression in LiteSpeed Cache → Tuning.
- Block hotlinking in cPanel → Hotlink Protection for image files.
- Remove unused plugins and disable wp-cron on high-traffic sites.
Monitor usage
Check bandwidth in cPanel → Metrics → Bandwidth. If you consistently exceed your plan limit, consider upgrading to Cloud or VPS hosting for dedicated resources.