Acceleration ABCs - O is for Outages (Otherwise Known as Oops)

Having a site unavailable is probably worse than having a slow loading page.  Outages can occur for multiple reasons such as an overloaded back end server, an upgrade that didn't go as planned, or a power outage at the data centre.  Whatever the reason the end result is the same dissatisfied customers (some which may never come back) and lost revenue.  Nobody is immune to outages there have been some fairly high profile sites that have had outages over the last year including Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook - just do a search for outages and you'll find many more that...

Acceleration ABCs - M is for Mozilla

Thanks to my colleague Sam for helping me come up with an M word.  I was going to talk about multiplexing but Lori beat me to it.  So instead of multiplexing m is for Mozilla.  Probably one of the most popular Mozilla projects is the Firefox browser.  Firefox is the second most used browser according to recent statistics posted by NetApplications.  I read an interesting post from the folks over at HttpWatch discussing the differences in the way IE and Firefox handle caching directives.  The difference in the way browsers handle cache directives means that more consideration needs...