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The BeHost Journal

Notes from the edge.

Engineering deep dives, performance research and practical guides to help you build faster, safer websites.

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How we cut global TTFB by 61% with HTTP/3 and edge HTML caching

A deep dive into the 18-month project that rebuilt our request path from the edge to the database — and the surprising bottlenecks we found along the way.

Rafael Osei · Oct 14, 2026 · 14 min read

Security

Inside a 4.1 Tbps DDoS attack — and how we absorbed it in 0 ms

A minute-by-minute breakdown of the largest attack ever mitigated on our network.

Sana Patel · Oct 9, 2026 · 9 min

Guide

The 2026 WordPress performance checklist: 27 fixes that matter

From object caching to image formats — everything we tune for 1.1 million WordPress sites.

Aisha Farouk · Oct 2, 2026 · 12 min

Engineering

Gen5 NVMe in production: 3.2x faster I/O, measured

What changed when we migrated 40,000 servers to PCIe Gen5 storage — with real benchmarks.

Mateo Kovač · Sep 26, 2026 · 8 min

Guide

Choosing a data center region: latency, law and cost

A practical framework for picking where your data should live in 2026.

Hana Nakamura · Sep 18, 2026 · 7 min

Company

Our 2026 sustainability report: heat reuse and hourly matching

How we reached a 1.12 PUE and now warm 2,400 homes in Stockholm with server heat.

Lena Marquez · Sep 10, 2026 · 6 min

Engineering

Zero-downtime deploys with atomic symlinks and edge purges

The deployment pipeline behind 1.4 million deploys a month on BeHost.

Rafael Osei · Sep 3, 2026 · 10 min

Security

Hardening WordPress in 2026: a defence-in-depth guide

The exact configuration our security team deploys on every managed WordPress site.

Sana Patel · Aug 27, 2026 · 11 min

Guide

VPS vs cloud vs dedicated: which one do you actually need?

An honest comparison with real workloads, costs and scaling scenarios.

David Brennan · Aug 19, 2026 · 9 min

Company

Welcome, São Paulo: our 32nd region is live

Three availability zones, 25 Gbps uplinks and sub-10 ms latency across Brazil.

Mateo Kovač · Aug 12, 2026 · 4 min

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