Ultra-fast PHP for up to
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:50 am
Exactly 2 years ago we launched our new Customer Area and Site Tools. It was a big moment for us, not only because it completed a 2.5-year software development cycle, but also because it put our hopes on the endless opportunities for service improvements that opened up in the future. To celebrate the anniversary of our new tools, we decided to recap which of those opportunities we turned into reality and what the reactions and impact of all those improvements together were. Oh, and we’ve decided it’s time to stop calling Customer Area and Site Tools “new,” as any software that has successfully passed the two-year and 5,000 bug fixes and feature requests mark is officially tried and tested, entering maturity.
Renewal of our technical configuration for a faster and more redundant service
Once we completed the development cycle and perfected our migration scripts to transfer all existing accounts from the old server setup and interfaces to the new one, our DevOps resources were fully directed towards platform improvements. The three main and most essential projects we completed, made possible by our new Site Tools server infrastructure, focused on the key components of our service: PHP, MySQL, and DNS services. No website could run on any server without these 3 (and the web server software, of course), so they set the foundation for how your website will function before you’ve even selected an application or gotten it up and running.
30% faster page loading
Running a PHP service is not a challenge. Many webmasters do it on their local new zealand whatsapp number data machines. But if you want a fast, stable, and secure PHP, while also supporting Apache and the variety of .htaccess rules defined by a multitude of users and applications running on a large platform like ours, things get complicated. After several iterations, our DevOps managed to overcome the biggest challenge of “speed over security” and developed an incredibly fast PHP with our built-in web application firewall and account isolation, getting better performance results without compromising security. You can read the full write-up about our ultra-fast PHP here .
Faster MySQL Setup, Faster Sites
Since we had started with the basics, it was natural that we re-evaluated how MySQL worked after PHP was optimized. MySQL is especially important for the performance of websites with large databases, which are typically e-commerce sites, quite spread out on our servers. The new MySQL configuration we designed allows for a considerably larger number of parallel requests to be processed simultaneously. This impacts MySQL's effective handling of heavy queries and leads to a significant reduction in the number of slow queries in our infrastructure.
Renewal of our technical configuration for a faster and more redundant service
Once we completed the development cycle and perfected our migration scripts to transfer all existing accounts from the old server setup and interfaces to the new one, our DevOps resources were fully directed towards platform improvements. The three main and most essential projects we completed, made possible by our new Site Tools server infrastructure, focused on the key components of our service: PHP, MySQL, and DNS services. No website could run on any server without these 3 (and the web server software, of course), so they set the foundation for how your website will function before you’ve even selected an application or gotten it up and running.
30% faster page loading
Running a PHP service is not a challenge. Many webmasters do it on their local new zealand whatsapp number data machines. But if you want a fast, stable, and secure PHP, while also supporting Apache and the variety of .htaccess rules defined by a multitude of users and applications running on a large platform like ours, things get complicated. After several iterations, our DevOps managed to overcome the biggest challenge of “speed over security” and developed an incredibly fast PHP with our built-in web application firewall and account isolation, getting better performance results without compromising security. You can read the full write-up about our ultra-fast PHP here .
Faster MySQL Setup, Faster Sites
Since we had started with the basics, it was natural that we re-evaluated how MySQL worked after PHP was optimized. MySQL is especially important for the performance of websites with large databases, which are typically e-commerce sites, quite spread out on our servers. The new MySQL configuration we designed allows for a considerably larger number of parallel requests to be processed simultaneously. This impacts MySQL's effective handling of heavy queries and leads to a significant reduction in the number of slow queries in our infrastructure.