• Automatically resizing images using Javascript (by analyzing visitor connection and device type)
• Virtualizing images so that visitors with weak connections get a smaller, lower-resolution version until they have access to a higher bandwidth connection.
• Simplifying image requests for visitors so they can immediately see the optimized images
• It acts as a lazy loader by converting all images to load on demand

Mirage, like Rocket Loader, is a feature applied to the client's website via client-side JavaScript. This means we modify the HTML response and add JavaScript code for the browser to execute; this is how the optimization is applied. This also means that disabling Mirage is not done by removing the feature from the image path (we do not apply any server-side optimization), but instead by disabling it via the path of the page that loads the image (stopping the script from being added to the initial page).

Polish is a one-click image optimization product that automatically optimizes images on your site. It removes metadata from images and reduces image size through lossy or lossless compression to speed up image download times.

When an image is fetched from your source, our systems automatically optimize it in Hostragons’ cache. Subsequent requests for the same image will receive a smaller, faster, optimized version of the image, speeding up your website.

Railgun speeds up the connection between each Cloudflare data center and an origin server, ensuring that requests not served from the Cloudflare cache are still delivered quickly.

Approximately two-thirds of requests to websites on Cloudflare are served directly from cache by the data center physically closest to the user browsing the web. Since Cloudflare has data centers around the world, this means that whether you're in Bangalore, Brisbane, Birmingham, or Boston, web pages are delivered quickly even if the actual, original web server is thousands of miles away.

Approximately two-thirds of requests to websites on Cloudflare are served directly from cache by the data center physically closest to the user browsing the web. Since Cloudflare has data centers around the world, this means that whether you're in Bangalore, Brisbane, Birmingham, or Boston, web pages are delivered quickly even if the actual, original web server is thousands of miles away.

However, the other 1/3 of the requests made to Cloudflare must be sent to the Origin server for processing. This is because many web pages cannot be cached. The reason for this could be incorrect configuration or, more commonly, the web page frequently changing or being personalized.

For example, caching the homepage of the New York Times for any period of time is difficult because the news changes and staying up-to-date is crucial for their business. And on a personalized website like Facebook, even though the URL is the same for different users, each user sees a different page.

Railgun uses a range of techniques to accelerate and cache these web pages that were previously uncachable, ensuring that even when a request to the origin server is needed, the web pages are delivered quickly. This works even for rapidly changing pages like news sites or personalized content.

Cloudflare research has shown that although many sites cannot be cached, they actually change very slowly. For example, the New York Times homepage changes throughout the day as news is written, but the standard HTML of the page mostly remains the same, and many of the news stories stay on the front page all day.

For personalized sites, the common HTML is the same only when small pieces of content (such as a person's Twitter timeline or Facebook news feed) change. This means that if the unchanging parts of a page can be detected and only the differences are transmitted, there is a great opportunity to compress web pages for transfer.

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects web applications from various application layer attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and cookie poisoning. Application-targeted attacks are a leading cause of breaches, acting as a gateway to your valuable data. With the right WAF, we can block a range of attacks aimed at compromising your systems and leaking that data.

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that accelerates the distribution of web content by bringing it closer to the user's location. Data centers around the world use a process called caching, which temporarily stores copies of files, so you can access internet content more quickly through a server near you, from a web-enabled device or browser. CDNs cache content like web pages, images, and videos on proxy servers close to your physical location. This allows you to watch movies, download software, check your bank balance, post on social media, or shop without waiting for the content to load.

You can think of a CDN like an ATM. Having an ATM on almost every corner makes earning money fast and efficient. There's no waiting time in long bank lines, and ATMs are placed in many convenient locations for instant access.

CDN services were created to solve the network congestion problem caused by delivering rich web content, such as graphics and videos, over the internet – much like traffic congestion. Getting content from centrally located servers to individual users took too long. CDNs have now grown to include everything from text, graphics, scripts, and media files to software downloads, documents, portals, e-commerce, live streaming environments, on-demand video streaming platforms, and social media sites.

CDNs can also provide additional protection for websites against malicious actors and security concerns such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Unexpected data loss affects all types of businesses and can happen at any time. Data backup is a minimum requirement for all businesses. For this reason, at Hostragons, we perform weekly backups of all sites hosted with us. However, this may not always be a lifesaver, and Hostragons is not responsible for the backups. Each customer is responsible for their own backups.

Our unmetered, always-on DDoS protection for your web assets (HTTP/HTTPS) is powered by Hostragons' constantly learning global network intelligence. Hostragons' DDoS protection works in conjunction with our cloud web application firewall (WAF), Bot Management, and other L3/4 security services to protect assets against all types of cyber threats. 

Hostragons Spectrum is a reverse proxy service that provides DDoS protection for any application (not just web) such as FTP, SSH, VoIP, gaming, or any application running over the TCP/UDP protocol. Spectrum comes with built-in load balancing and traffic acceleration for L4 traffic.

Hostragons Magic Transit, part of Hostragons' network security portfolio, provides BGP-based DDoS protection for network infrastructure in always-on or on-demand deployment modes. Data centers in 250 cities across 100 countries announce customer subnets to receive network traffic and reduce threats near the attack source.

I/O (Input/Output) limit is a restriction that determines the read and write speeds of data to and from a server's disk. This limit is typically measured in megabytes per second (MB/s) and is set by hosting providers. Its purpose is to ensure fair sharing of server resources and to prevent performance degradation in cases of excessive usage.

Inode is a single file present on the server. It can be any file on your server, including system files, emails, websites, and databases. Inodes are automatically counted, and the results are displayed in the client area or cPanel.