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As a Cloudflare Optimized Partner, the networking connections between Servebolt and Cloudflare are enhanced. This network provides content in closer proximity to the visitor, reducing latency and shortening the time it takes for the first byte to be received.

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Servebolt is obsessed with reducing network latency because that means faster end-user performance. Therefore, we have partnered with the World’s leading CDN provider, to ensure we can meet our low latency demands globally.

The joint mission of Cloudflare^® and Servebolt is to make sure that data travels as fast as possible from the Servebolt Cloud™️ – to website visitors. Our data centers are connected and optimized, all around the globe.

The Servebolt + Cloudflare network

Peering and connected on the large Internet exchanges

Massive Network Scale

Cloudflare’s unrivaled network extends across more than 100 countries and 300 cities, providing lightning-fast connectivity within a mere 50 milliseconds of 95% of the world’s Internet-connected population.
Low Latency at Scale

The Servebolt Cloud locations are all in very close proximity to the Cloudflare Edge. Therefore, the network path between us is as short as possible. This results in faster routing and better user experiences. Did you know that the network latency between Servebolt servers and Cloudflare Edge is as low as 0.3 ms? That’s close!
Lightweight Hosting Infrastructure

One of the ways we’re making sure you can enjoy our fast hosting is by keeping our hosting infrastructure lightweight. This means that less code needs to run for your site to be fast. It also means that we can offer simpler scaling options, all while using fewer resources and staying true to our green hosting mindset.
Supreme Network Connectivity

Servebolt has teamed with the best internet networking operators and even uses low-latency Infiniband for internal networking in some regions.

Why compression is important for network performance

Why do we use compression?

It is important to compress data before sending it over the internet, or between data centers. The reason for that is that data is transported packages of limited sizes. Smaller amounts of data, will require fewer network roundtrips.

Every network roundtrip travels the full distance from A to B. So by compressing and reducing the size at point A, before sending it over the network, and decompressing it at point B – we save network roundtrips.

Resources are used at both ends to compress and decompress, but the speed of these extra operations is much faster than doing more roundtrips to move the data.

How Servebolt works with compression

Compression is something that is used by close to all web servers, globally. If it were possible to compress faster, or compress better – that would be a great benefit for the internet.

That’s why Servebolt co-founder Hans Kristian Rosbach rebuilt the widely used compression library zlib, which is used for gzip. Servebolt maintains a drop-in replacement version for next-generation computer systems, zlib-ng. This project also implements a variety of custom Cloudflare optimizations, in addition to dropping support for ancient processor architectures.

Of course, zlib-ng is in use on all Servebolt Cloud hosting, and it compresses both faster and harder than stock z-lib.