Looking for a CDN file Hosting Tool

Patryk Pijanowski
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Hey! Do you know of any tool that makes it easy to host files, like animations, on a CDN? Tools like Webflow automatically compress everything you upload, resulting in really low quality.

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Claudia Nathan
The compression shouldn’t affect your file quality enough to notice with Webflow, the quality could be related to the original file - Webflow does this compression to reduce the load on your site and optimize speed. It’s a highly upvoted feature to be added to the CMS. But if you want to use a CDN I’d recommend Bunny.net or Cloudflare (embeds or links you can use on Webflow pages). For animations I’d recommend Lottie Files, Webflow has has a native element to support this 🙌
Coro
Depends on the kind of animations. If they are Lotties (basically JSON files), you have to rely on lossless compression algorithms (gzip/brotli). I'd recommend Cloudflare, imgix for images (imgproxy by EvilMartians if you want to self-host, its open-source), or use object storage such as a S3 bucket (quite inexpensive).