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10-08-2006, 05:38 AM #1Junior Guru
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Is there such thing called Speed Booster?
Speed Booster - Can expect your websites to load up to ***% faster.
Possible? or Liars?
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10-08-2006, 06:00 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Do you have a link? Nobody here can comment on what you are asking unless we know exactly what software you are talking about.
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10-08-2006, 06:01 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Not possible. Sounds like some very deceptive marketing.
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10-08-2006, 06:04 AM #4Retired Moderator
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I really doubt there is. A "speed booster" for web sites, can it be just a proxy that cache the frequently accessed pages? Other than that I don't think so.
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10-08-2006, 07:16 AM #5Junior Guru
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http://www.orynet.com/sg/
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10-08-2006, 07:24 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Sounds as if it just compresses your site between client and server, which many hosts already offer in some format or another anyway. (Gzip)
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10-08-2006, 08:03 AM #7Junior Guru
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They appear to be using http compression using gzip. It's not exactly an uncommon practice, but it's possible they have a custom made Apache module, even though it doesn't seem to have made a huge difference in the compression ratio.
I think it's important to remember where your target market is and serve from a node(or nodes) relatively close to them. Doing so will normally achieve a relatively greater speed increase then http compression--not that it hurts! :-)
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10-08-2006, 09:16 AM #8Disabled
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Honestly, you're better off just finding a host with php eAccelerator.
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10-08-2006, 09:34 AM #9Retired Moderator
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For me the site loads fast, but I am from Singapore and the site is from Singapore, so I guess the main bottleneck is still the bandwidth.
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10-08-2006, 09:46 AM #10Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by PE-Steve
It all depends on your target... If all your clients are in Singapore then you're best off with a host in that region of the world. If in North America, you're best off with a host there. If your clients are all over the world and quick loading is extremely important, consider a global load balancing solution that takes clients to the closest node.
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Originally Posted by RoryErickson
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10-08-2006, 09:50 AM #12Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by RoryErickson
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10-08-2006, 10:10 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by RoryErickson
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10-08-2006, 10:20 AM #15Disabled
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The content loaded fast for me, it's just the images that took forever.
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10-08-2006, 10:21 AM #16Eternal Member
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Originally Posted by PE-Steve
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10-08-2006, 10:32 AM #17Managed Hosting Expert
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On a 45mbit fiber line here ... and it took 10.420s to load ... not exactly speedy.
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10-08-2006, 11:11 AM #18Junior Guru
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10-08-2006, 05:43 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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When you use dialup and you have a speed booster, your ISP compresses the images of which you are downloading to make your web pages appear to load faster. In reality, they are taking away from the quality of the image of which you are looking at. I personally believe that their claim to make your downloads up to 10x faster is a load of false advertising (unless you disable the viewing of images ).
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10-08-2006, 06:24 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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I would agree, the overall site provided a quick load time, but the images did take a short while to load. I think this is something which you can experience when you have compression enabled on the server, this is why sometimes if you are serving relatively small pages its not worth investing in cache modules etc as it sometimes has the opposite affect, granted it may increase the site load time a little, but you then make a compromise on the server load time which tends to increase due to the caching in effect.
Personally I would stick with gZip if you plan on implementing compression, at least it has been tried and tested in many environments, this product seems fairly new, its the first I have heard of it.
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10-08-2006, 06:46 PM #21Eternal Member
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Personally I would stick with gZip if you plan on implementing compression, at least it has been tried and tested in many environments, this product seems fairly new, its the first I have heard of it.