[olug] Web Accelerators

[Mario Steele]

The reason "commercial" accelerator's won't impress you to much, is 
cause gzip gives awful compression ratio's to Graphics.  And unless you 
got a super-computer mainframe that can easily compress the data files 
into LZMA, BZip2, or 7Zip format, your not going to get that much more 
performance out of the system.  Ofcourse, the decoding time it takes for 
LZMA, BZip2, and 7Zip to actually decompress the files for the end user, 
takes quite a bit of time, especially for LZMA Format.

Proxy'ing incoming web-pages is always good, cause as being the central 
Hop for your Customer, and the rest of the internet, it will inevitablly 
cut down the number of hops your customer's computer has to go, to 
actually retrive the data itself.  The more hops between your customer's 
computer, and their intended website, the more time it will take for the 
data to be transfered between the two places.  That is common internet 
knowledge, or should be.  But then again, 75 percent of internet users 
don't know every little detail about the internet.  Such a shame, such a 
shame.


Noel Leistad wrote:

> OK, so I've lurked this thread, questionable if I'm even addressing 
> the issue.
>
> We as an ISP run squid as an accelerator, but I also know that you can 
> run apache w/ a gzip module that will compress all text files sent out.
>
> We once did a little trial run on some "commercial" accelerator, but 
> wasn't really impressed w/ its results. So much of what is viewed is 
> loaded w/ graphics that didn't really compress that much more.