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Get an “A” in YSlow with Webtatic Optimizer

Posted 9th August 2009 by Andy | No Comments

The performance of a website is an important issue. Even fast responding dynamic pages can be hit with problems with sub-optimal static content such as high overhead on many HTTP requests and large javascript/css files. Tools like YSlow, and Google Page Speed help identify these problem areas.
Webtatic Optimizer is a tool that can be used [...]

Page-level caching with Nginx

Posted 6th April 2008 by Andy | 6 Comments

In a further attempt to modify my websites so that they can withstand the Digg Effect, I have looked into getting Nginx, a lightweight http server, to perform page-level caching.
Nginx can act as a reverse proxy, sending any HTTP request sent to it to another web server. It can also store the response to file, [...]

Zend_Cache_Frontend_Page – FAIL

Posted by Andy | 1 Comment

In my attempts to create the most Digg resilient website, I decided there was only one thing for it, full page-based caching on the server.
My first foray into this was trying to implement Zend’s Zend_Cache_Frontend_Page.
However, I found a few show-stopping bugs in this, when involving browser-based cache HTTP status (304 Not Modified), and for http [...]