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1and1 CDN Clear Cache and Developer Mode

Published: 9/1/2018 11:15 PM

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An update on my earlier post. I couldn't accept that the answers I was given from the 1 and 1 support tech were right. I was told that you can only turn CDN on or off. After doing some more research on the image caching issue, I found that this is easily possible through a direct account with Cloudflare. I also found that 1and1 has been using Cloudflare as a CDN provider for years. I can't be the only one who ever asked to clear cache or make modification beside the simple on or off switch. Here i

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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CDN Image Cache Differences

Published: 9/1/2018 6:00 PM

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While getting ready for the release of the new version of this site, I was doing some testing on any device I could get my hands on. Didn't matter if it was a PC, tablet, android device or an iDevice. My hopes was that I would see similar updates reaching all devices at the same time. Granted, that wouldn't happen if I didn't make sure to clear local cache on the device I was testing. But... I made sure that was done. Here is what I found that surprised me.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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1&1 Cloudflare CDN does not support non www URLs

Published: 8/22/2018 7:45 AM

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This morning I woke up all excited to find out if my Cloudflare CDN had propagated. After doing some testing through 1&1's own website speed tool and many runs through GTmetrix on a global scale. I wasn't seeing any indication or validation that the CDN was working. So, I called 1&1 support. Here is what I found. delivery

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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1and1 CDN

Published: 8/21/2018 5:15 PM

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It's all about speed! Adter spending part of my morning pushing out the AMP feature to the development site, I started looking at the cost and possible website speed increase from using a content delivery network (CDN). Here is what I found.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Enable gzip compression on 1and1.com

Published: 7/20/2018 12:00 AM

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The speed increase from enabling gZIP compression on a website is a must. It's been a while since I have journeyed in to the world of Apache, which I am pretty sure what 1 and 1 is utilizing. Time to see what I can do through the htaccess file or control panel to enable gzip compression.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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