Peakhour.IO - CDN

Cloudflare outage proves Plan B depends on controlling DNS

Dan — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +1100

Tuesday’s Cloudflare incident reminded everyone that you can’t execute a Plan B if your DNS knobs are trapped behind the provider that’s failing. Here’s how Peakhour runs a detect-decide-divert playbook without touching your existing third-party DNS vendors.

Did Residential Proxies enable a $600 Billion loss?

AC — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +1100

How residential proxy networks may have enabled DeepSeek to bypass AI platform protections, leading to Nvidia's historic market value loss

Addressing Key Cloud Security Categories

AC — Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +1000

An analysis of Peakhour's role in addressing key cloud security categories identified in recent industry analysis, demonstrating its comprehensive approach to modern cloud security challenges.

RFC 9460

AC — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1100

Introducing SVCB and HTTPS records in DNS and their impact on web connectivity.

Enterprise-Level Caching for All

Dan — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +1100

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

Dan — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +1100

There are many things you can do to speed up your Magento store, here are just a few.

Navigating CDN Consolidation

AC — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1100

Explore the complexities of switching CDN providers amid industry consolidation and how Peakhour can assist in the transition

Vary Cache on Cookie Value

Dan — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +1000

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

Dan — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +1000

Content/Origin mounting allows you to seamlessly bring content together from multiple sources, on to your main website.

Cache Tags/Surrogate Keys

Dan — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +1000

Surrogate Keys, or cache tags, are a powerful mechanism for targeted flushing of content from a cache, not all CDNs support them though.

ZDNS - scan the entire internet

AC — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +1000

Details the use of ZDNS, a high-performance DNS toolkit, to create a comprehensive Reverse DNS (rDNS) lookup database by scanning the entire internet, and how randomizing the IP space overcomes UDP timeout issues.

Maximising Website Speed

AC — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:31:00 +1000

How can maximising website speed boost your company's revenue, especially during an impending economic recession?

Down But Not Out - JXL Will Return on Safari

AC — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +1000

What Apple's announcement of JPEG-XL support means for the web ecosystem.

Understanding HTTP Link Headers

Dan — Wed, 24 May 2023 13:00:00 +1000

HTTP Link headers are a relatively unknown but powerful way to improve page load times.

Multi-Origin Load Balancing

Dan — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +1000

Websites with a global audience need more than just a traditional CDN. They need geographic multi origin load balancing.

The Death of JPEG-XL

AC — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +1000

We bid farewell to JPEG-XL after its abrupt deprecation by Google, reinforcing the tech giant's domineering influence over the web and sparking a call for resilient alternatives.

Introducing Automatic Cache Tags in the Updated Peakhour WordPress Plugin

Dan — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +1100

Read about automatic cache tags in the updated Peakhour WordPress plugin.

Layer 7 DDoS Protection

AC — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +1100

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.

Automatic Image Optimisation

AC — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +1100

Image optimisation saves you bandwidth and designer effort while reduces page load time.

Drupal full page caching module

Dan — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +1100

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!

Dan — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +1000

Prestashop is the latest shopping cart we've made a plugin for, read on for more details.

Origin shield

AC — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +1000

Origin shield is a CDN must have feature that increases your Cache Hit Rate by consolidating requests from POPs.

CDN Cache Keys

AC — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:00:00 +1000

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

AC — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:00:00 +1000

Request collapsing - saving your origin by reducing concurrent requests and re-using responses for resources.

Opencart 3 Full Page Caching Plugin Released

Dan — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +1100

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

AC — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +1100

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

AC — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +1100

Cache-Status is a proposed standard header to provide visibility into how caching providers interact and handle a request.

Fastly Outage

Dan — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +1000

Fastly, a major CDN provider, had a global outage last night which affected some of the world's largest websites and internet services. Why didn't they have a backup plan?

Setting Up A Chia Hobby Farm

Dan — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +1000

Chia is a new blockchain aiming to one up Bitcoin that's taking the crypto world by storm. We decided to jump on the bandwagon.

The CDN is Dead, Long Live the CDN!

Dan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +1100

Firefox and Chrome are introducing cache partitioning to improve your privacy, from everyone except Google.

Secure Dynamic Content Caching

Dan — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +1100

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

Dan — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +1100

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?

AC — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +1100

Are Australian Magento stores prepared for the introduction of Core Web Vitals as a search signal? Read on to find out.

Instant Alerts

Dan — Fri, 31 May 2019 13:00:00 +1000

Introducing Instant Alerts, a new feature for receiving emails or SMS alerts when events happen on your site.

Boost Your Website Speed with Full Page Caching

Dan — Fri, 10 May 2019 13:00:00 +1000

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

Dan — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:00:00 +1100

Experience a significant boost in website speed and performance with Peakhour's Full Page Caching feature, now easily accessible through our Wordpress plugin.