"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
>
> OK, Ken..... Which of your books would be money best spent? ;-)
Both, of course. Get discounts by buying through
<URL:http://Apache-Server.Com/> and <URL:http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/>.
:-)
Seriously, the Unleashed book is much more complete, but probably
more geared for someone with at least a little experience. However,
I wasn't the main author so I don't get any royalties. Consider
you decision carefully in light of *that*. }-)
> I probably should have defined my objectives a little better. My
> wife's web site uses things like embedded .wav's (this ugliness is
> not up for discussion at this point ;-( . The files are large, and
> this causes the pages to take a long time to download for people
> with slow connections (dial-up, etc.).
Unfortunately, binary files like JPEG, MPEG, GIF, and audio files
don't generally compress well because they typically have a
relatively uniform distribution of octet values. Text files,
on the other hand, compress very nicely because there are a limited
number of values being repeated frequently.
So I'm not sure that server-side compression is the answer here
in any event. Conversion to another format, such as MIDI, might
be better, if the sacrifice can be made (i.e., the WAVs aren't
speech nor orchestral).
> So, what I want to do is to make it faster. I am not devoted to
> any one method, but I would like the method that provides the
> greates speed enhancement. I'm not overly concerned about wasting
> cycles, since this is not a big site or anything.
Then make sure you set up header field values that will make these
invariant files stick around in the caches as long as possible.
I don't think there's much else you can do..
--
#ken P-)}
Ken Coar <http://Golux.Com/coar/>
Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>
"Apache Server for Dummies" <http://Apache-Server.Com/>
"Apache Server Unleashed" <http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/>
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