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What is Railgun?

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Railgun is a WAN optimization technology that we offer our hosting customers in partnership with a company called Cloudflare.

Cloudflare’s Railgun technology greatly speeds up the delivery of non-cached pages. While Cloudflare automatically caches 65% of the resources needed to make up a page, 35% can't be cached because the resources are dynamically generated or marked as 'do not cache'. That 35% is often the initial HTML of the page that must be downloaded first. Cloudflare Railgun speeds this remaining 35%.

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I’m not a Cloudflare customer, can I still use Railgun?

No. You need to be a Cloudflare customer in order to use Railgun.

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What much does Railgun cost?

We have partnered with Cloudflare to make Railgun both easy and affordable. If you purchase Railgun directly through Cloudflare, it costs $200/month. However, we have partnered with Cloudflare and...

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What kind of sites can use Railgun?

Any website can benefit from the performance improvements Railgun offers, especially dynamic sites.

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What if I’m having issues enabling Railgun?

If you experience issues when enabling Railgun, please contact us by raising a support ticket here: https://www.encode.uk.com/contact.php

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I’m seeing an error on my site and I think Railgun is causing it, what should I do?

If you are using Railgun via cPanel, you can turn it off directly from your control panel. Otherwise, log into your Cloudflare account, go to Performance Settings and turn Railgun off from there....

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