Introduction
smoxy sits between your visitors and your origin server. It caches content, optimizes images, secures traffic with WAF and SSL, and gives you real-time analytics — all without changes to your application code.
First Time Here?
Follow the Getting Started guide to connect your first domain, verify DNS, and activate smoxy. The entire setup takes a few minutes.
Core Concepts
| Concept | What It Does | Learn More |
|---|---|---|
| Sites | A reusable configuration bundle (caching, security, optimization) that you assign to one or more domains | What is a Site? |
| Domains | The hostnames your visitors use — each domain is linked to a site and gets its own SSL certificate | Domain Overview |
| Origins | Your backend servers where smoxy forwards requests | Origins & Loadbalancer |
| Rules | Conditions and actions that modify requests, responses, or routing on the fly | Rules Overview |
Popular Topics
Performance
- Advanced Caching — TTL, cache keys, cache tags, stale cache
- Image Optimization — Automatic compression, format conversion (WebP, AVIF)
- Acceleration — HTML caching and minification
Security
- Security & WAF — Web Application Firewall, Basic Auth, Under Attack Mode
- How SSL Works in smoxy — Auto-managed and self-managed certificates
- Access Rules — Block or allow traffic by IP, country, header, or path
Operations
- Dashboard — Real-time traffic charts, cache management, Go-Live checklist
- Cache Invalidation — Purge cached content by URL or tag
- DNS Management — Host your DNS zones in smoxy
Need Help?
- Browse the documentation using the sidebar or search
- Check SSL Troubleshooting for certificate issues
- Contact our support team if you're stuck