Web Accelerator Appliance

[rtroxel]

Has anybody here used a web accelerator?

After doing a Google search on "web accelerator appliance", I've learned that there are a number of companies manufacturing these devices.

One of them is PipeBoost at http://www.pipeboost.com/.

It works, basically, like this:

"The Microsoft Internet Information Server holds the site web pages. A customer requests a page either static or dynamic HTML, ASP, XML, style sheet etc. The server first determines if the customer has a compatible browser. It then pushes down a compressed version of the page to the client. The customer’s browser then decompresses the file and displays it. Only the compressed version of the page is sent.

"The compression process requires a slight increase in CPU utilization for compression/decompression both on the server and client side. Up to 1/10 of the original file size with virtually no additional processor load. Content is compressed prior to SSL encryption and sites employing SSL also reap significant performance increases.The Microsoft Internet Information Server holds the site web pages. A customer requests a page either static or dynamic HTML, ASP, XML, style sheet etc. The server first determines if the customer has a compatible browser. It then pushes down a compressed version of the page to the client. The customer’s browser then decompresses the file and displays it. Only the compressed version of the page is sent. The compression process requires a slight increase in CPU utilization for compression/decompression both on the server and client side.

"Up to 1/10 of the original file size with virtually no additional processor load. Content is compressed prior to SSL encryption and sites employing SSL also reap significant performance increases."

Sounds like a better solution than constantly upgrading your server.

Roy
http://www.webservertimes.com

[northwind]

Thats actually what gzip does.

You can actually allow gzip to compress everything as far as php, and html to make things load up faster but sometimes it causes it to download instead of viewing on the browser.

If you decide to try the gzip mod on all pages, be sure you have a backup =)