What is Anycast DNS?
An introduction to Anycast DNS
At a basic level Peakhour is an intelligent Reverse Proxy. What this means is the Peakhour ANYCast global network of servers sits between an end user and the web server of the website they are trying to access. A request placed by an end user's browser will be routed through the closest Peakhour server, which will inspect the request before deciding what to do with it. The possible actions it may take might be to:
Before returning the content from the webserver to the end user Peakhour will perform website optimisations such as shrinking files and keeping a copy so they can be served directly from Peakhour for a future request.
For further explanation see our how Peakhour works page.
An introduction to Anycast DNS
An overview of the different types of browser hints and how they help with website performance
An overview of the cache control header sent by websites.
An introduction to CDNs (Content Delivery Network)
A quick description of CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing)
An overview of dynamic content caching.
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