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Introduction

Caching

Caching is essential for the scalability of a dynamic website. Depending on the complexity of the site, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide good performance for requests that are handled by PHP. In general, there are orders of magnitude of difference between the latency of a response that comes from the cache and one that comes from the backend. Moreover, a caching mechanism can be necessary to mitigate denial of service attacks.

The Web Accelerator combines Varnish configuration modules developed and refined over years of experience with the necessary customizations for the customer's site to achieve maximum efficiency. It is a product fully managed by Seeweb staff, with no need for the customer to configure it himself.

Web Application Firewall

The Web Accelerator platform can act as a frontend cache, Web Application Firewall (WAF), or both at the same time.

The WAF uses a set of proprietary rules created by Seeweb staff to block the most common intrusion attempts.

Adopting a WAF is often a regulatory requirement, but our staff can also implement targeted configurations to protect sites with known security issues that cannot be updated.

All the functions described here are applicable to both products.

Supported Sites

A Web Accelerator can manage an arbitrary number of sites, as long as they all use the same CMS. Configurations are already available for the most popular CMS, otherwise Seeweb staff will develop a customized configuration with no additional costs.

To activate new sites, it is sufficient to contact our staff, so they can prepare the necessary TLS certificates.

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