Hands-on recipes to improve your website's load speed and overall user experience with Varnish Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Connect and health-check application servers with Varnish Cache Load balance requests across clustered servers Define caching policies and request/response workflow In Detail When you're doing business on the Web, every second counts. 80 percent of the end user response time is spent on downloading content to the browser, and Varnish Cache is here to help you solve this problem in...

Improve the performance of your network using the caching and access control capabilities of Squid Get the most out of your network connection by customizing Squid's access control lists and helpers Set up and configure Squid to get your website working quicker and more efficiently No previous knowledge of Squid or proxy servers is required Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series: lots of practical, easy-to-follow examples accompanied by screenshots In Detail Squid Proxy Server enables you to cache your web content and return it quickly on subsequent requests. System...

Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you to get by with smaller network connections. It also protects the host on your internal network by acting as a firewall and proxying your internal web traffic. You can use Squid to collect statistics about the traffic on...

"Rabinovich and Spatscheck report a wealth of detailed information about how to implement Web caching and replication mechanisms, but more importantly, they teach me how to think about the general problem of content distribution. I'm pleased that there is finally a comprehensive book on this important subject." --Larry Peterson, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University "This book is a remarkable piece of work, well-organized and clearly articulated. The authors have masterfully presented advanced topics in Internet Web infrastructure and content delivery networks in a way that...

On the World Wide Web, speed and efficiency are vital. Users have little patience for slow web pages, while network administrators want to make the most of their available bandwidth. A properly designed web cache reduces network traffic and improves access times to popular web sites--a boon to network administrators and web users alike. Web Caching hands you all the technical information you need to design, deploy, and operate an effective web caching service. It starts with the basics of how web caching works, from the HTTP headers that govern cachability to cache validation and replacement...