Can I Change the CDN Provider for My Domain?

Short answer: yes — and it’s now a one-click job. You can move your site to a different CDN yourself, straight from your dashboard — no backups, no deleting and re-adding, and no downtime. We keep your current CDN running until the new one is proven to be serving your site, then switch you over.

Opening the CDN tab

Every setting for a site lives on its control panel. To reach the CDN options:

1. In your dashboard, click the site name of the domain you want to change.

On the site’s Control panel, open CDN — either the CDN card (Change the CDN that serves this site) or Site details → CDN in the left-hand menu.

Moving to a new CDN

The CDN page shows the provider your site is on now, plus every other one you can move to — each with its own Move to… button.

1. Find the CDN you want and click Move to [provider].
2. Read the confirmation — it tells you in plain English exactly what will happen: whether anything needs to change at your registrar, whether we’ll set the nameservers for you, what happens to HTTPS, and that your old CDN is only removed once the new one is serving.
3. Confirm, and the move starts. The page shows its progress, and you can leave and come back — you don’t have to sit and watch it.

What happens during the move

The whole process is built so your site can’t go dark. Here’s what’s going on behind that one click:

• Your old CDN keeps serving until the new one is proven to be working — that means your site is healthy, the domain points at the new CDN, and (for an HTTPS site) a real secure connection succeeds.
• Only then, and only after a further 30 minutes, is anything removed at the old provider. If the move never proves out, it’s marked failed and nothing is removed — you stay exactly where you were.
• Nameservers are handled for you where possible. If your domain is in a registrar account you’ve connected, we set the new nameservers automatically; otherwise the confirmation shows you exactly what to change. See Automatically Update Nameservers and How To Update Your Nameservers.

If a CDN refused your site

Sometimes the CDN you chose refuses to set up a domain – for example because the domain is already in use at that CDN under another account, or because the certificate authority it uses will not issue a certificate for the name. The site page then shows a yellow notice saying the site cannot go live on that CDN, and why.

A refused site can switch CDN too, even while it shows Error or Activating CDN: click Switch to another CDN in the notice (or open the CDN tab) and move it exactly as above. Nothing is deleted – the site is set up on the new CDN within a few minutes. Full guide: My site is stuck activating its CDN – how to switch to another CDN.

Which CDNs can I choose?

You can self-serve a move between Cloudflare, BunnyCDN, CDN77, Gcore, KeyCDN and CloudFront. Not sure which suits your site? See Which CDN Should I Use?.

Occasionally a provider’s button is greyed out with the reason shown in plain English — for example “KeyCDN has no room for another site right now”, “Bunny is HTTPS only and this site is set to plain HTTP”, or “this site is paused”. Fix the reason given (or pick a different CDN) and the option comes back.

Moving to or from CloudFront

CloudFront (Amazon) is a self-service move now, like the others. Its HTTPS certificate is issued and attached before your domain is switched to it, so HTTPS keeps working through the change (this usually takes 15 to 45 minutes, and the site stays on the old CDN until then). If CloudFront is greyed out for a site, the reason is shown – for example when the site’s DNS provider cannot hold the records CloudFront needs to check the certificate. Moving away from CloudFront works from the CDN page as normal.