section.io Website Performance and Security Blog

TL;DR

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As you know section.io currently supports the following reverse proxy servers Varnish Cache 3 Varnish Cache 4 Varnish Cache 3 pre-configured for Magento Turpentine Integration Varnish Cache 4 specifically for Magento 2.0.0 ModSecurity

section.io has supported the SPDY protocol since the platform’s inception and we’ve been trialling HTTP/2 in recent months. Today HTTP/2 is enabled for all sites using section.io.

Update

When you create an account on section.io we give you lots of powerful tools to improve your website’s performance and security. There are great charts showing how many requests are being served and what is being done to them. You can dig into the logs and see how each request flows through section.io and what happens to it.

At section.io we wanted to enable people to use popular reverse proxies like Varnish Cache and ModSecurity to improve the performance and security of their websites but remove the hassle of dealing with deployments, high-availability, patching, TLS configuration, or instrumentation.

Using a reverse proxy for SSL can improve site load speed and free up resources on your servers.

Varnish is an excellent caching application, it’s what it’s designed for after all. However the fact that it ships with a built-in programming language (VCL) makes it very useful for tweaking how your site responds to HTTP requests. Often these can be things that you don’t really want your website to be concerned with, like sending some standard HTTP headers. Also it’s great for stopping unwanted requests from getting to your webserver, e.g. enforcing HTTPS.