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HTTP Accelerator Configuration

If you are running into speed issues we can help lighten the load with the addition of a HTTP accelerator such as Squid to your site.

A default setup of Plone serves all the objects in a site everytime a request is made. This is very resource-intensive and therefore translates into a site with poor response time should the site experience a heavy load of traffic.

Six Feet Up has a lot of experience working with highly visible websites. We work with our customers to take as much load off the content management system as possible while still serving up-to-date content.

Choose from a comprehensive array of services:

  • Complete site performance analysis
  • Load-balancing setup on clustered Zope instances
  • Basic reverse proxy configuration with Squid
  • Advanced optimization of the site caching policy by tweaking CacheFu for different objects (CSS, JavaScript, images, etc.)
  • Optimization of the site by reducing the number of resource-intensive errors

A few related Case studies:

World Science Festival World Science Festival

Launched early April 2008, the site was deployed by Six Feet Up onto their own servers using a clustered Zope application server with Pound acting as the load balancer. Six Feet Up set up Nginx to do the rewriting while Squid has been handling the reverse HTTP acceleration.
http://www.worldsciencefestival.com
American.com


American.com


In 2006, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) launched a new website for their magazine "The American", a new bimonthly business and economics magazine.

The site was deployed by Six Feet Up who set up Squid as an HTTP accelerator and installed Pound to balance the load across a Zope ZEO cluster. On the third day after its launch, the site enjoyed close to 8 GB of traffic and remained quick and stable.
http://www.american.com
 

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