We are excited that Amazon Web Services has heeded the cry for more economical 64 Bit linux instances. We are now proud to offer aiCache Small and Medium instances across all seven AWS networks. The inclusion of these smaller instance sizes substantially lowers the cost for smaller sites to use aiCache technology. We have already [...]
read moreWe get the following call frequently. My site is under DoS attack and is down can you help! We think it would be nice if your DoS protection could understand when an attack starts and then implement protection immediately. So Introducing auto-activation and notification of our IP throttling technology. This allows you to set thresholds such [...]
read moreOur customers and our internal development group uses the Amazon Web Services S3 service. Its a great resource for web based storage. It has an amazing uptime and its very straightforward. Our only complaint is that is not fast. We generally specialize in sitting between the client browsers and the Web tier. With a little [...]
read moreSome sites are subject to huge spikes in traffic. During these spikes you may have components of your site that prone to outage. While we would love to help you fix this, we live in the real world, and understand it’s not perfect. So we made Flexible Request Decimation. You can configure aiCache to apply [...]
read moreMany of our customers have multiple addresses for referencing their sites. Sites often have a subsets for dealers or agents or SEO purposes. While the majority of the content is the same, there are small differences that make it worth unique configurations for optimizing the individual domains. The issue is that this leads to a [...]
read moreWe spent the first year at aiCache explaining that aiCache is not memcache. We hope it will take less time to explain we are not Google or Amazon. When asked what we think about Google website optimizer and Amazon ElastiCache our response is…its about time!! So in short order what this means for aiCache? A [...]
read moreWe get the request periodically to support (ESI) Edge Side Includes. We took a deep dive with ESI and decided against supporting it. I thought a bit of elaboration might help folks looking at options for scaling sites that need user personalization. ESI allows you to slot in content at the Edge device, by [...]
read moreOur customer presented several scenarios, such as front ending API’s off of a CDN, where the Origin server being accelerated by aiCache can change and needed to be referred to by DNS name. To address this requirement we implemented a special thread dedicated to out-of-band resolution of DNS-defined origin servers. The thread runs in the [...]
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