Knowledgebase
Help Center
Performance & Reliability
Caching, optimization, resource use, availability, scheduled work, and stability.
Subcategories
Refine the topic before choosing an article.
Availability & Resource UseDetailed customer guidance for availability and resource use, including storage, bandwidth, traffic, processes, scheduled tasks, backups, imports, abusive requests, and intermittent failures.
Optimization & CachingDetailed customer guidance for website optimization and caching, including page generation, assets, images, compression, browser caches, application caches, personalized pages, database queries, and third-party calls.
Articles
16 published guides in this category.
TTFB, page-load time, and Core Web Vitals terminology explained
TTFB, page-load time, and Core Web Vitals terminology explained is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers w…
Browser caching versus server-side caching
Browser caching versus server-side caching is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not administer…
Page cache versus object cache: what each one accelerates
Page cache versus object cache: what each one accelerates is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may…
Gzip and Brotli compression explained
Gzip and Brotli compression explained is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not administer serv…
How oversized images slow down a website
How oversized images slow down a website is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not administer s…
Finding slow database queries and database-heavy pages
Finding slow database queries and database-heavy pages is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may no…
How plugins and extensions can reduce website performance
How plugins and extensions can reduce website performance is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may…
Why scheduled tasks can cause recurring CPU or response-time spikes
Why scheduled tasks can cause recurring CPU or response-time spikes is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for reade…
Bandwidth versus connection speed versus server response time
Bandwidth versus connection speed versus server response time is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who…
Fixing a 504 Gateway Timeout response
Fixing a 504 Gateway Timeout response is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not administer serv…
How PHP memory exhaustion affects website reliability
How PHP memory exhaustion affects website reliability is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not…
Investigating sudden CPU or process-usage spikes
Investigating sudden CPU or process-usage spikes is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not admi…
What happens when a hosting service runs out of disk space
What happens when a hosting service runs out of disk space is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who ma…
Why an uptime monitor may report a false outage
Why an uptime monitor may report a false outage is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not admin…
CDN terminology explained and when a CDN may help
CDN terminology explained and when a CDN may help is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who may not adm…
Troubleshooting a website that is slow only at certain times
Troubleshooting a website that is slow only at certain times is a practical Spark Rack customer guide about website speed, caching, resources, scheduled work, monitoring, and availability. It is written for readers who…
