Cloudflare locally improves its growing list of services including a CDN and DNS resolver providing a direct speed boost to internet access in Memphis. [Read More]
Cloudflare
A collection of my blog posts tagged as being related to Cloudflare, the website performance and security service.
Activating HTTP/2 Server Push with WordPress
A quick and dirty test of HTTP/2 Server Push on WordPress. [Read More]
Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts
By implementing .woff2 and slimming down my icon font, I reduced the weight of my site’s fonts by about 50KB. [Read More]
Decentraleyes: Block CDN Tracking
Decentraleyes is an add-on for Firefox that blocks CDN tracking by intercepting requests to common JavaScript libraries and serves them from a local store. [Read More]
DIY VPS Build Guide for Fast and Cheap WordPress Hosting
A verbose build guide for a modern, high-performance production WordPress VPS. Stack: Ubuntu, NGINX, MariaDB, HHVM, Redis, Let’s Encrypt. [Read More]
Let’s Encrypt!
Some sites that collect personally identifiable information have yet to encrypt their web traffic using TLS even though it has become so easy to implement. [Read More]
Example of Dynamically Caching WordPress on CloudFlare
The performance improvements speak for themselves in this example of dynamically caching WordPress on CloudFlare from a traditional shared hosting server. [Read More]