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Archive for October, 2006
Port80 Software is reporting that in their survey of Fortune 1000 Web sites, IIS 6.0 has overtaken Apache as the Web server platform of choice. [here]
My two-cents: I respect the Port80 Software team greatly and love their maniacal devotion to ensuring that IIS users actually make use of the HTTP compression and caching that can [...]
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Guilty Pleasures: Go Insane
In: Life
11 Oct 2006As a teenager growing up in a very small logging town in the BC interior, I had what could be politely termed unusual musical tastes, especially for the mainstream, heavy-metal, hair-banging kids I hung around with.
But when I was alone with my walkman, I listened to the real geniuses of 80s rock: REM, Kate Bush, [...]
Citizens Bank Outage
10 Oct 2006Citizens Bank Outage
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.
Some days, your bank needs to get smacked around.
This is one of those times.
What is going on?
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AJAX Performance Blog
In: Life
10 Oct 2006Ok Web performance gurus, I have been out-cooled by someone I work with. Ryan Breen, VP of Technology at Gomez and overall uber-geek, has managed to register AJAX Performance and has a blog up there that talks all about the freaky twisted goodness of making your AJAX behave.
Ryan knows way more about making apps behave; [...]
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- Tags: ajax, app, blog, cool, data, HTTP, it, Om, One, performance, web, Web Performance
Happy Thanksgiving
In: Life
9 Oct 2006Happy Thanksgiving
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.
To all the folks back home, Happy Thanksgiving!
May your turkey be moist, juicy, and, preferably, smoked.
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This is amazing
In: Life
7 Oct 2006my packing technique is unstoppable
Originally uploaded by ryan christopher.
Sometimes, you have to be in awe.
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USS George H.W. Bush
In: RANTING
7 Oct 2006Today, they christened the Nimitz-class carrier, George H.W. Bush.
Still a few bugs to work out. Seems the navigation system breaks down after it has seen battle, causing it to wander aimlessly, and eventually become lost. It is especially vulnerable to attack by more than one enemy simultaneously, which in some simulations has forced the commander [...]
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- Tags: CAD, design, flee, George H.W. Bush, George W Bush
Aren’t tracer rounds illegal?
In: Life
6 Oct 2006So, after 6 years of controlling and managing my own Web server, I have handed responsibility over to 1 & 1. I wish I could say that there was a really good reason why I’ve done this, but frankly, it’s because I don’t need a lot of oooommmmph for my personal domains (they run happily [...]
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- Tags: app, blog, control, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, personal, server, Technorati, tracer rounds, web, Web server, wordpress
This paper is an extension of the work done for another article that highlighted the performance benefits of retrieving uncompressed and compressed objects directly from the origin server. I wanted to add a proxy server into the stream and determine if proxy servers helped improve the performance of object downloads, and by how much.
Using the [...]
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- Tags: ads, apache, app, ARIN, bandwidth, cache-control, Cacheability, caching, client, compress, compression, control, corporate, data, EAD, extension, gzip, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, improvement, IP, it, LAN, Linux, local proxy server, mod_gzip, Om, One, optimize, origin server, Pages, performance, performance improvement, pr, proxy, proxy server, run, server, the Origin, The origin server, traffic, web, web page download times, wordpress
How much improvement can you see with compression? The difference in measured download times on a very lightly loaded server indicates that the time to download the Base Page (the initial HTML file) improved by between 1.3 and 1.6 seconds across a very slow connection when compression was used.
Base Page Performance
There is a slightly slower [...]
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- Tags: apache, caching, compress, compressing, compression, deflate, gzip, HTML, LAN, Linux, loaded server, PHP, SCSI, Web server, Web server administrators