Other Features

High Availability

Local: two instances can be activated in the same data center in an active/passive mode.

Geographic anycast: instances can be activated in different data centers, each managing part of the traffic, and serving as a backup for each other in case of failure or maintenance.

Seeweb has data centers in Milano and Frosinone with independent connectivity and peering, allowing low-latency service for local visitors.

For very high-traffic sites, it is also possible to activate multiple instances in the same data center in active/active mode, but this is rarely needed.

Real-time Statistics

https://<domain>/seeweb-wa/statistics displays real-time statistics on the entire Web Accelerator traffic. Credentials are provided at activation time.

Emergency Caching

Sometimes, a customer's site may suddenly receive an unexpected amount of traffic, either legitimate or as part of a denial-of-service attack.

Seeweb staff can activate an emergency Web Accelerator in minutes, diverting HTTP and HTTPS traffic with flowspec that would normally be directed to the backend. This way, there is no need to change the site's IP in DNS and wait for all clients to see the new one.

The emergency cache is an almost standard Web Accelerator. It can send traffic directly to the backend for sites that it is not configured to handle, so it is only necessary to install certificates for the sites that actually require caching.