How To Exclude Query String Parameters from Search Engine crawling
Double crawling of pages by search engines due to filtering options and query strings can be a massive drain on server resources. Learn how to control it using robots.txt.
Enterprise-Level Caching for All
Elevate your e-commerce with our newly released Magento 2 plugin. Experience enterprise-level caching features accessible to all Peakhour customers.
Useful tips to accelerate your Magento store
There are many things you can do to speed up your Magento store, here are just a few.
Vary Cache on Cookie Value
Varying the cache on a specific cookie value is a powerful way to cache personalised content. Many CDNs consider this an enterprise feature, but it's essential for modern dynamic websites.
Content and Origin Mounting
Content/Origin mounting allows you to seamlessly bring content together from multiple sources, on to your main website.
Cache Tags/Surrogate Keys
Surrogate Keys, or cache tags, are a powerful mechanism for targeted flushing of content from a cache, not all CDNs support them though.
Understanding HTTP Link Headers
HTTP Link headers are a relatively unknown but powerful way to improve page load times.
Consistent Hash with Bounded Loads
An overview of consistent hashing with bounded loads, an advanced load balancing technique that ensures a more even distribution of keys across servers, preventing overload and improving system stability.
Efficiently Generating and Printing All IPv4 Addresses in a Random Order
Explains how to efficiently generate all IPv4 addresses in a random order using a Linear Congruential Generator (LCG), a memory-efficient method for tasks like security testing and network simulation.
Locality Sensitive Hashing
An introduction to Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) and its application in load balancing, including consistent hashing and its use in CDNs and Google's Maglev for efficient server pool management.
Multi-Origin Load Balancing
Websites with a global audience need more than just a traditional CDN. They need geographic multi origin load balancing.
Introducin' Automatic Cache Tags in the Updated Peakhour WordPress Plugin, Fool!
Read what Mr T has to say about our Wordpress Plugin update.
Layer 7 DDoS Protection
Comprehensive guide to Layer 7 DDoS protection using strategic caching within application security platforms. Learn how intelligent caching strategies provide robust defence against sophisticated application-layer attacks.
Drupal full page caching module
We're excited to announce our Drupal 8/9 caching module, read on for more details.
Prestashop 1.6/1.7 full page caching plugin released!
Prestashop is the latest shopping cart we've made a plugin for, read on for more details.
Origin shield
Origin shield is a CDN must have feature that increases your Cache Hit Rate by consolidating requests from POPs.
CDN Cache Keys
Cache keys allows the segmenting of the Peakhour.IO cache by elements of both the request and response, enabling effective and flexible caching of content.
Request collapsing
Request collapsing - saving your origin by reducing concurrent requests and re-using responses for resources.
Opencart 3 Full Page Caching Plugin Released
Elevate your Opencart 3 store's performance with Peakhour's full page caching plugin. Learn how our features outperform LiteSpeed and Varnish Cache.
Cdn-Cache-Control
CDN-Cache-Control is a proposed new header to augment the venerable Cache-Control. Its aim is to make controlling caching easier as CDNs become ubiquitous.
Cache-Status
Cache-Status is a proposed standard header to provide visibility into how caching providers interact and handle a request.
Website Optimisation
Even if you have the fastest server in the world, your website might still seem very slow to end users if you have lots of render blocking resources, learn how to deal with them.
The CDN is Dead, Long Live the CDN!
Firefox and Chrome are introducing cache partitioning to improve your privacy, from everyone except Google.
Secure Dynamic Content Caching
Comprehensive guide to secure dynamic content caching that improves server performance whilst maintaining security controls. Learn how modern application security platforms integrate caching with threat protection for optimal performance-security balance.
Common Issues That Affect Website Performance
After covering testing we're going to get an overview of the common issues that impact website load times and how to check for them.
Are Australian Magento Stores Ready For Web Vitals?
Are Australian Magento stores prepared for the introduction of Core Web Vitals as a search signal? Read on to find out.
Test Your Website Performance With Google Lighthouse
This installment on website performance introduces Google Lighthouse as a measuring tool. Read on to see how we use it here at Peakhour.
Website Performance testing with WebPageTest.org
In this installment of our website performance series we're taking a look at webpagetest.org, one of the best tools you can use to analyse real world performance of your website.
Core Web Vitals Optimisation
Comprehensive guide to Core Web Vitals optimisation with integrated security. Learn how modern application security platforms improve both performance metrics and protection whilst boosting search rankings and user experience.
Is your website obese?
An introduction to page weight, what it is and how you can reduce it.
Instant Alerts
Introducing Instant Alerts, a new feature for receiving emails or SMS alerts when events happen on your site.
WordPress Performance Optimisation
Comprehensive guide to WordPress performance optimisation using modern Application Security Platforms with integrated CDN capabilities. Learn how to achieve superior Core Web Vitals whilst maintaining robust security protection.
Boost Your Website Speed with Full Page Caching
Our Magento 1 plugin is now available in the Magento Store. Discover how it improves website performance and capability.
Boost Your Website Speed with Peakhour's Full Page Caching
Experience a significant boost in website speed and performance with Peakhour's Full Page Caching feature, now easily accessible through our Wordpress plugin.