CloudFlare has enabled a new type of encryption (technically, some new ciphersuites) on its HTTPS offering which makes things faster for mobile clients. This looks at what’s involved.

A look at the tech behind a high scale service that handles hundreds of thousands of requests every second.

A look at loading Web fonts in a better performance manner while avoiding the ‘flash of invisible text’ issue which can hide text for seconds.

Orbit is the new highly durable and “Geo-redundant” object store from Brightbox. Files are automatically distributed over multiple devices and multiple UK datacentres. Priced at 5p per GB/month. Try it now with £20 free credit.

If you’re in the US, a day remains to persuade Congress to save net neutrality.

Remember that recent Kim Kardashian photo? Its publishers knew it’d get a ton of traffic so how did they cope?

DNS is the first step in many Web requests, but the speed with which you can access a root server varies.

A look at the privacy implications of using Google’s popular fonts service.

websocketd provides programs in all manner of other languages an easy way to become WebSocket enabled.