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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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Baseline Testing With cURL
3 Oct 2006cURL is an application that can be used to retrieve any Internet file that uses the standard URL format — http://, ftp://, gopher://, etc. Its power and flexibility can be added to applications by using the libcurl library, whose API can be accessed easily using most of the commonly used scripting and programming languages.
So, how [...]
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 [...]
Compressing PHP Output
3 Oct 2006A 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 [...]
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Opera Web Site: Hello? Anyone home?
In: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
18 Feb 2006As a Web performance analyst, this is the sort of graph that melts your mind and makes you want to scream at the gods|goddesses to rain a plague of locusts on the offending System|Network|Web Site Administrators.
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This is a classic display of the “run in circles, scream and shout” problem identification and [...]
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How much of your bandwidth does RSS consume?
In: Web Performance
15 Feb 2006Yesterday I was on a call with a customer who flat out stated that 55% of their bandwidth was consumed by applications pulling RSS feeds.
Does your company have a grip on just how much continual background noise RSS feeds inflict on your Web servers?
Technorati Tags: RSS, Web performance, bandwidth
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GrabPERF and The Newest Industry: LAST CALL
16 Nov 2005UPDATE: We have a new home:
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UPDATE: The shutdown date has been set.
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Ok folks, this is it.
Last Call.
We have reached a point where the cost of the cable modem that connects my servers to the Internet has to be slashed.
Without the semi-static IP that I have had for the [...]
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Compressing Web Output Using mod_gzip for Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x
In: smp
30 Apr 2005Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]
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XCache Technologies: Still Kicking in the Pacific Northwest
In: smp
21 Apr 2005Wayne Berry and the crew at XCache Technologies is still kicking, with their interesting mix of software and hardware HTTP compression solutions.
The software is designed for IIS/ISA, while the hardware is a front-end for Web servers.
I had a chance to meet Wayne a few years ago, and was impressed by his dedication to Web performance. [...]
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