Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In a previous paper, the use of mod_gzip to dynamically compress the output from an Apache server. With the growing use of the Apache 2.0.x family of Web servers, the question arises of how to perform a similar GZIP-encoding function within this server. The developers of the Apache 2.0.x servers have included a module in [...]
A little-used or discussed feature of PHP is the ability to compress output from the scripts using GZIP for more efficient transfer to requesting clients. By automatically detecting the ability of the requesting clients to accept and interpret GZIP encoded HTML, PHP4 can decrease the size of files transferred to the client by 60% to [...]
In todays highly competitive e-commerce marketplace, the performance of a web-site plays a key role in attracting new and retaining current clients. New technologies are being developed to help speed up the delivery of content to customers while still allowing companies to get their message across using rich, graphical content. However, in the rush to [...]
A few years ago, I wrote an article ablout how to best set up Web server cache-control messages to take advantage of this free form of content distribution. Until now, it has only existed as a PDF file.
Last night, I sent a copy to Kevin Burton of TailRank in response to some of his recent [...]
In: Life| Linux: Server| Software| Web Performance
2 Aug 2006I took the big leap today and upgraded the base Web server to Apache 2.2.3. This required some finagling with httpd.conf file, and a re-build of PHP, but once that was done, the app bounced up happy as a clam.
As usual, let me know if you see anything unusual — with the server, not with [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
13 Jun 2006Dear PodTech:
Say thank you.
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:18:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)
Location: http://www.podtech.net
Content-Length: 283
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
X-Pingback: http://www.podtech.net/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 9233
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:14:21 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Performance got better, didn’t it?
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In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
13 Jun 2006Dear PodTech:
Use HTTP Compression. It’s built into Apache/2.0.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:30:24 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
X-Pingback: http://www.podtech.net/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Probably save you some bandwidth and improve your performance, which is in the tank right now.
Podtech Live Web Performance
Best of luck.
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19 Feb 2006I have noticed that GrabPERF has been responding increasingly more slowly as of late. Well, I believe that I have resolved the performance issue: I moved the Web component of GrabPERF off of the machine where the database is housed.
However, when I did this, I hit a really stupid issue that was the result of [...]
In: Blogging
25 Oct 2005Wait! Didn’t he say he had done this already?
Yup. But forgot one stupid little step. You have to re-compile PHP to work with the new MySQL 5.0 libraries. I tried to restart Apache and it barfed all over the PHP module with MySQL library module mismatch errors…or something like that.
Done and the system is now [...]
In: smp
14 Oct 2005The Web server has been upgraded to Apache 2.0.55.
Let me know if you see any unusual weirdness.