Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Web server performance

If you have ever been hit with a flood of unexpected traffic, you know what kind of effect this can have on your web server performance. The unassuming visitors are the ones who pay the most, sometimes their requests being flat-out denied, other times they would leave in frustration. Either way you have lost a visitor and potential source of income. This is why it is vital to make sure your web server’s performance has been optimized so you can continue to serve files to your hard earned traffic while saving money on bandwidth costs.

Luckily there is a server optimization program like the Website Accelerator that uses a collection of performance tools each designed to optimize your outgoing data, and reduce stress on you web server.

No matter what platform your server is running on the Website Accelerator has a solution for you. Web servers that are using Microsoft IIS solutions including ASP.NET and SharePoint can enjoy seamless integration without changing a thing. the Website Accelerator loads itself as an ISAPI filter, or ASP.NET and literally takes minutes to start seeing bandwidth optimization in many cases upwards of 75%.

There is of course full support for Apache, the world’s most well used web server software. Increase web server performance in a matter of minutes with the Website Accelerator’s easily integrated Apache module.

All of the Website Accelerator’s platform solutions are “plug and play”, meaning everything is preconfigured for optimal performance and speed. the Website Accelerator will even detect which browser is requesting the data and make optimizations accordingly, so to ensure every visitor receives the best possible experience.

The Website Accelerator dramatically reduces the amount of http requests on your web server by optimizing multiple elements of a page automatically. Any code such as CSS style sheets or JavaScript are combined into one to save space. This software will also generate CSS sprite sheets out of multiple images, dramatically reducing the number of requests and bandwidth required to send the files.

Compression and Caching of the web pages further reduces page load times for visitors. With this software each page is optimized only once and cached, effectively minimizing the Website Accelerator’s stress on your server. The use of Gzip compression on all resources reduces the amount of data needing to be sent and as such reduces page load times.

The Website Accelerator also supports a wide range of JavaScript frameworks increasing compatibility with most of the webpage’s on the internet today. Built-in JavaScript support includes AJAX, DotNetNuke, EPiServer, Microsoft SharePoint 2007, Microsoft CRM, and other common frameworks. the Website Accelerator will also gracefully handle any rare unsupported framework it may encounter.

Reducing your visitor’s page load time is the ultimate goal with any web server performance optimizations you may do. The benefits of this have been proven time and time again, people will not wait around for a slow web site. Using the Website Accelerator you will not only be able to reduce page load times for every visitor by 33%-75%, but you will also save on bandwidth costs by cutting them upwards of 50%. the Website Accelerator is simply the best solution available to eliminate the headache of configuring your web server manually.