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I use Yottaa as a band-aid for inherited websites at my agency. When a client comes to us, asks us to rebuild their site and take over their old site in the mean time, we use Yottaa to speed the heck out of their poorly-hosted, poorly written previous site.

Also, don't be confused when the sales guys call and say they're from "Yoda". The space muppet is the correct way to pronounce yotta, the SI prefix.

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how does yottaa actually speed up websites? does it involve shifting your website to their platform/severs?

(Currently using/testing the product).

No, you don't shift anything to their servers. They give you a long/funky CNAME that you use for your www.foo.com DNS record. So basically all your web traffic is going through their servers, and they "intelligently" cache static content and/or distribute it through a CDN.

It works fairly well and is painless to deploy (mostly, had some minor issues at first).

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