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04.20.08

.htaccess - gzip and cache your site for faster loading and bandwidth saving PHP, Servers, Web Development | (12)
Last week I changed my hosting provider from Site5 to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Despite the fact that the first one is faster than the second, NFSN is a lot more cheaper (I only pay what I really use). So in order to speed up my site and save bandwidth (the more I use the more I pay) I use .htaccess file to gzip my text based files and optimize cache HTTP headers. Although this site is powered by Wordpress which has some really great plugins to optimize PHP output I wanted a more generic solution which can be applied to all PHP web applications. I also ...

Tagged: .htaccess, Apache, Cache, gzip, HTTP headers
01.02.08

J2EE cache filter Java, Open Source, Web Development | (5)
In my current web project I was having some performance issues, I needed a tool that allowed me to do some testing so I can see what's wrong and what I can do better so my application perform faster. My search lead me to High Performance Web Sites and YSlow, a very good talk by Steve Souders the Chief Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! YSlow is an easy-for-use plugin that allows you to inspect any web page just clicking a button. YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox ...

Tagged: Browser, Cache, Filter