New feature: SSL offloading
On many hosting platforms, including our own DrupalCONCEPT, secure traffic that is encrypted via SSL has to be handled directly by the web server. This not only puts additional computing load on those...
View Articlefreistilbox just got more powerful
One of the most important keys to website performance is caching. That’s why freistilbox includes multiple caching services, first and foremost the Varnish HTTP cache. On our load balancers, Varnish...
View ArticleTemporary file directories now come in two flavours
We’re now providing web applications with two variants of temporary file directories: one that is shared between boxes and a faster one that is stored locally on each node of a freistilbox cluster. Our...
View ArticleEnterprise hosting from the start
You may be wondering why we don’t have an “Enterprise” column in our pricing table. It looks like everyone has such an offer, after all. The reason is: With freistilbox, we decided to not make...
View ArticleScots say “No” to independence but “Yes” to freistilbox
Long before the actual vote took place on September 16 2014, The Scottish Independece Referendum drew a lot of attention in all over Europe. So, when Paul Linney from madewithcustard got in touch with...
View ArticleGetting the most out of Varnish
Every freistilbox customer gets their own dual-node Varnish cluster, so we have a lot of experience in tuning the cache configuration for Drupal or WordPress websites. I’ve distilled some of our most...
View Articlefreistilbox now supports syslog logging
In Drupal 7, database logging via the “dblog” module is enabled by default. On high-traffic websites, this can become a problem. When Drupal generates lots of log entries, they can cause significant...
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