Intelligent frontend hosting for Contentful
IDO Edge is the Contentful frontend hosting layer that runs in front of your Contentful content.Frontend hosting, security, global delivery and native performance in Mainland China, run as one suite.
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Your frontend is a separate decision.
Contentful is headless: content lives inside it and is served through its Content Delivery and GraphQL APIs, while the frontend that renders it, typically a Next.js application, needs its own home.
That is a frontend hosting decision made separately from the CMS itself, often landing on a general-purpose platform such as Vercel or Netlify.
Those platforms are built for developer speed: fast deploys, a smooth Git workflow and generous free tiers. What they are not built for is the governance an enterprise Contentful deployment needs.
Contentful frontend hosting needs to meet enterprise security standards, scale under real production traffic and reach markets like Mainland China natively, not through a workaround.
For teams already running Contentful at scale, that gap becomes their own to close.
Contentful frontend hosting built for enterprise governance,
not just developer speed.
IDO Edge answers that gap with Contentful frontend hosting delivered as one suite: security, delivery, monitoring and White Glove Enterprise Service, all in the same place.
IDO Edge hosts the Next.js, Nuxt or Astro frontend your Contentful content renders through, with nothing to re-platform. Security is actively managed, and support is backed by SLAs. China Frontend Hosting for Contentful is available as an optional addition, giving Chinese visitors native performance through real in-country PoPs - and your Contentful CDN needs are met through IDO Edge's global network, spanning more than 250 points of presence.
Contentful's own delivery serves your content. IDO Edge manages everything your visitors load on top of it - the CDN, frontend hosting, security and China delivery, run as one managed layer rather than a CDN on its own.
For deployments that need infrastructure of their own, IDO Edge Dedicated is available - reserved, single-tenant resources with region-specific data controls, detailed below.
Why enterprises choose IDO Edge for Contentful
China Frontend Hosting
Extend your site into Mainland China with native frontend hosting - not a specialist vendor bolted on afterwards.
Best-in-class web security
A managed WAF, DDoS protection and RADR, matured over four weeks to block more than 95% of malicious traffic.
IDO Edge Dedicated
Reserved infrastructure with no shared resources, encrypted logs stored in a region you choose, and Private PoPs where traffic must stay in-country.
Co-managed through White Glove Enterprise Service
Automation handles the routine tuning; hands-on specialists handle the rest, from onboarding through daily operations - you stay in control throughout.
IDO Edge also runs Sitecore, Optimizely, Umbraco, Magento, Sanity and custom platforms, and is available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
IDO Edge runs in front of Contentful as the frontend hosting, security and delivery layer your enterprise deployment needs.
Ecosystem advantage
Amplify your Contentful investment with a purpose-built frontend layer - frontend hosting and security in one suite, with China delivery available.
Built for headless
Whether your Contentful frontend runs on Next.js, Nuxt or Astro, IDO Edge works with the Contentful setup you already have.
Accelerated time-to-value
Go faster without compromise. One DNS change routes your Contentful traffic through IDO Edge, with CDN and WAF monitoring live from the first request and RADR active by week four.
The six elements of IDO Edge
Contentful gives you the flexibility and scale to build digital experiences. IDO Edge is the Frontend Management Suite built to support that setup, covering frontend hosting, delivery, security, monitoring and support from one place.
Frontend hosting
Fast and global frontend hosting
- Fast SSR performance
- Globally distributed
- Frontend hosting in Mainland China
- Broad framework support
Global edge delivery
Optimised content delivery for Contentful-powered experiences
- In-flight asset optimisation
- PageSpeed optimisation
- Edge delivery inside Mainland China
- Dynamic personalisation support
Web security
Enterprise-grade security for your Contentful deployment
- Managed and optimised WAF
- Active security tuning
- DDoS protection
- Realtime Attack Detection & Response (RADR)
Digital ROI tracking
Visible proof of what your Contentful estate delivers - the evidence you show whoever signs off the budget
- Track performance and availability goals
- Core Web Vitals tracking
- Live data streaming
- Recommendations
Visualization
Live performance dashboards for Contentful teams
- Drag-and-drop stakeholder dashboards
- Live data streaming
- Real-time insights
- Developer, marketer and IT team views
White Glove Enterprise Service
Co-managed support for Contentful deployments
- Expert onboarding and optimisation
- Co-managed monitoring, day to day
- Enterprise compliance inherited from Azure
- Hands-on specialist support, whenever you need it
From proof of concept to go-live in days
Getting Contentful frontend hosting live through IDO Edge is not a migration project: there is no re-platforming and no new console for your team to run.
Live and connected from day one
Day one
Share the domain and make one DNS change, timed to your change management. We verify reachability, prepare the edge certificate and secure the origin connection before routing switches over. CDN, image optimisation, logging, DDoS mitigation and WAF monitoring go live from the first request.
Your WAF, matured by week four
By week four
Hands-on specialists tune your WAF to your traffic and move it to full enforcement, with RADR active as the final stage and typically blocking more than 95% of malicious traffic before it reaches your origin.
Optimised for as long as you stay
Ongoing
IDO Edge keeps tuning your setup as your estate changes. Automation handles the easy path, while specialists step in where it diverges through the White Glove Enterprise Service.
What IDO Edge frontend hosting for Contentful gets you
One place to see, secure and accelerate every Contentful property you run.
We don't build websites or chase delivery hours - IDO Edge runs the frontend hosting, security and delivery layer alongside your existing team or agency, not instead of it.
Built for headless Contentful frontends on Next.js, Nuxt and Astro, so the same suite covers every Contentful site in your estate.
Enterprise security built in, not configured after the fact, with managed WAF, DDoS protection and RADR (Realtime Attack Detection & Response).
The option to add China delivery, using native infrastructure inside Mainland China instead of a specialist vendor.
Contentful CDN and frontend hosting from the same suite, managed as one layer rather than separate services to configure and pay for.
The option to move to IDO Edge Dedicated for reserved infrastructure and in-country data controls, when your Contentful deployment needs it.
Procurement that fits your Azure agreement through the Azure Marketplace, counting toward MACC or an Enterprise Agreement.
Transform your Contentful implementation
Ready to bring frontend hosting, security, China delivery and co-managed support together for your Contentful implementation?
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