"Lasse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it just me or is this site blazingly fast? Are you using some > cache-tricks or something? Or du you just have an over-powered under-loaded > server? > > I could use a bit of speed at my own site.. :-)
You'll probably be surprised to know that the server is a Cobalt RaQ4, marketed by Sun as a "server appliance". The box has a 450 mHz processor and 1/2 GB of RAM. It's hardly a cutting edge server in terms of processor speed, though I've been fairly pleased with the RaQ line since its inception and continue to work with them heavily since I do a fair amount of server administration and application development for hosting companies and other businesses running RaQs. The perceived speed is partly due to the fact that the box operates under a modest load, is in a data center with good connectivity and your browser likely caches the images which are shared among all pages. There is no server-side caching. All of the content on it is generated dynamically, though I could easily create static pages for that particular site. I'm also a big fan of controlling related web pages from a single PHP script by configuring Apache to point requests to this script using the AliasMatch directive so that the end user and search engines thinks the content is static and the URLs don't get cluttered with ugly query strings. However that doesn't improve speed, it actually degrades it. Hope that helps, -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
