Managed hosting was always associated with an expert helping with best efforts, to keep your website running. So, you see advertised “15 minute response time” benchmark. The industry evolved to give a platform as a solution. LuroConnect is taking the lead now by redefining managed hosting.
The luroConnect stack comes with many features like.
Web Application Firewall using the open source ModSecurity project and built into LuroConnect nginx. Rules are configurable per customer depending on their environment and issues they may have.
Image quality is one of the key drivers for eCommerce, especially fashion. However, page load suffers when image size grows. With increasing device screen quality, higher internet speeds and CDNs, the balance is quickly going in favour of quality to speed. It is important to deliver the device dependent quality and size images.
Image generation in Magento is flawed and assumes one solution is acceptable to all. luroConnect Image Optimization fixes these flaws.
| Magento | LuroConnect | |
|---|---|---|
| When is an image generated | Pre 2.3, synchronous with frontend 2.3, synchronous with product save | Asynchronous – queued on product save |
| Webp support | No support | Supported – needs img tag change |
| High resolution 2x, 3x, Retina display | Possible with img tag change – but makes synchronous problem worse | Supported asynchronously with img tag change |
| Other image optimizations | Not possible | In the roadmap such as progressive jpeg |
A Periodic reports on the site health, can even be customized. Example checkout speed, response to most popular URLs, cache status, etc
Like all caches, FPC when cleared has a warm start problem. Traditionally crawlers are used to warm the cache. However, they suffer from warming the cache with the wrong URLs. luroConnect smart cache warmer uses history of recent hits to decide what URLs to warm the cache with.