Web performance

Objectives, dependencies, costs and recovery: the questions to examine when choosing a cloud migration approach and the right level of support.

Capacity, responsiveness, endurance and recovery: the questions to ask when choosing SSD, NVMe or HDD storage for a website, application or NAS.

Redis, Valkey and key-value storage: understand the 2024 split, licensing, cloud services and the practical decisions behind a controlled migration.

Nuagerie has completed improvements to temporary storage used by its managed hosting platform. The work established a dedicated working area for MariaDB and expanded the platform’s shared temporary-storage capacity. Both changes were followed by functional checks and confirmation that the intended settings were active. Working space for database operations Databases can need temporary files while processing queries or performing maintenance. MariaDB provides settings for...

Nuagerie has completed a focused maintenance operation covering security fixes and supporting components of its managed hosting platform. The work included signed vendor updates, a LiteSpeed Web Server build update and checks that the affected components were operating correctly after activation. Security advisories reviewed and addressed The maintenance included fixes associated with CVE-2026-88815 in perl-DBI and CVE-2026-42784 in the cryptographic dependency used by...

Nuagerie has completed a targeted rollout of LiteSpeed Cache for compatible WordPress websites on its managed hosting platform. The work brought page caching into line with the web server, replaced overlapping cache configurations where appropriate and checked that public pages were actually being served from cache. Caching that fits the way a website works A page cache keeps a generated copy of eligible public content so that the application does not need to rebuild it...

Nuagerie has increased resource headroom for eligible hosting plans. Entry-level plans benefit from additional memory and concurrent processing capacity, while disk throughput and disk-operation allowances have been adjusted across the affected tiers. The changes are active on the hosting platform. Resources aligned with everyday website needs A website uses more than disk space. Page generation, content management, image processing and application maintenance also depend...

A website can finish loading and still feel unresponsive when someone opens its menu, selects a service or submits a request. On March 12, 2024, Interaction to Next Paint became a Core Web Vital, replacing First Input Delay. This milestone brought greater attention to what happens after arrival, when visitors begin using a page. For a business website, that is a useful reason to review the actions customers depend on. Understand what the measurement tells you INP measures...

WordPress 5.8, released on July 20, 2021, added native support for uploading and using WebP images. The official release announcement marked an important step for sites whose visual content makes up a large part of each page. For a business website, the opportunity is practical: present useful photographs and product details while reducing unnecessary data transfer. Choose the image for the job WebP can provide smaller files at an acceptable visual quality, but changing...

In March 2019, Nuagerie increased the resources allocated to its shared web hosting plans. This gave websites on the affected plans more capacity, responding to needs expressed by our customers. More capacity for applications An account’s resources influence the capacity available to run a website and handle its requests. A higher allocation can provide more room when an application reaches a plan limit. It does not guarantee the same speed improvement for every website....