application delivery controller

Acceleration ABCs - Y is for Yslow YSlow is a plug-in for Firefox that is integrated with the Firebug web development tool.  The plug-in evaluates a web page and provides a score based on 13 criteria. Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put CSS at the top Move Scripts to the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups Minify Javascript ... posted @ Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:32 AM | Feedback (0)

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... posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:11 PM | Feedback (0)