Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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 [...]
In: Life
28 Sep 2006Judging by the flood of mail coming into my account for the last 15 minutes, there was an outage with the GMAIL SMTP servers sometime overnight or early this morning.
Anyone know what happened?
Technorati Tags: GMAIL, SMTP, GMAIL+Outage
In: GrabPERF
27 Sep 2006Many thanks go out to the technical team for getting the GrabPERF Web server back on the Interweb.
All the good (and bad) news about Web performance is back.
The GrabPERF Web server has been offline for more than 4 days, after it was moved to a new rack.
Kevin Burton complained about the lack of availability today [here].
I have enquired about an ETA for return to service. None has been forthcoming.
At this point, I guess you can consider GrabPERF offline until further notice.
In: GrabPERF
23 Sep 2006The folks who host the server are slammed and trying to figure out what is happening. Hopefully it will return to action tomorrow.
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
21 Sep 2006Last night, the folks at the hosting facility moved the servers to a new rack. The database server is up and data is coming in from the measurement agents, but the Web server is not yet back up.
I hope that this will be resolved later today. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I finally tired of running my own blog server, and since most folks use the feeds, I figure I will abuse Matt Mullenweg’s bandwidth rather than my own.
Welcome back?
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: GrabPERF| Web Performance
11 Aug 2006The new GrabPERF Agent code, with support for plain text or regular expression content matching, is now in production on all active measurement agents.
I added one more feature before I rolled out the new code: when a content match error occurs, the server headers and HTML content for 14 days.
I have not exposed this feature [...]
In: Blogging
11 Aug 2006July 25, 2006 at 19:48:24 GMT.
That’s the last time that the Technorati bot indexed my blog.
I am confused, because of all the sites out there, my blog should be pretty easy for Technorati to index — this server, as well as the GrabPERF servers is hosted in Technorati’s racks. Theoretically, the bot should be able [...]