In the last 12 months CNBC.COM deployed aiCache for their main financial and mobile websites. In December they moved the to our Dynamic Cloud Cache (DCC’s), a solution based on aiCache instances with geo-routing by Dyn.com. Details On the 6th of May the financial market moved over 1000 points and drove the highest financial news traffic day [...]
read moreThe secret of caching is controlling the freshness of content. This is managed using (TTL’s) Time To Live settings. These settings balance the speed of delivery with the freshness of content by controlling how frequently content is generated. Website admins struggle to balance content freshness and speed of delivery. The challenge is that settings that [...]
read moreaiCache’s pattern and origin server tagging (os_tag directive) is ideally suited for easing the typical chores of website transitions. Many an IT professional shiver at the mere mentioning of this two words: website transition. It doesn’t have to be painful. Let’s imagine that Acme Inc has its current website of news.acme.com hosted with a legacy [...]
read moreaiCache’s pattern and origin server tagging (os_tag directive) is ideally suited for addressing the well known limitation of AJAX cross-domain scripting. As you may well be aware, the XMLHttpRequest object (aka XMLHTTP object in Internet Explorer) is the centerpiece of today’s AJAX-driven web applications. Many a popular site owes its rich functionality and responsive interface [...]
read moreaiCache makes it possible to control whether or not a web page is cacheable, based on page’s (response) content. For example, www.acmenews.com/breakingnews.aspx web page is normally cached for 10 seconds, unless editorial team decides to publish a survey (poll) on that page, in which case you cannot cache the page for as long as the [...]
read moreaiCache brings a new level of Web Acceleration to the market with the release of Version Six of its flagship product, aiCache Web Application Accelerator. With an architecture supporting and linearly scaling up to unlimited number of CPU cores, it provides virtually unlimited scalability for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. aiCache solves the industry issue of [...]
read moreaiCache allows you to cache a site’s content and enforce the registration/login policy. Users that are not logged in or registered, will not be allowed to view cached content and will be subject to normal handling; i.e. “asked to register and sign in to view the content.” Let take an example news website “www.acmetimes.com”. The [...]
read moreYou might need a method to allow reporting of assorted error conditions. For example, your web site might offer videos, breaking news and other APIs that are invoked by AJAX or some other form of client-side Javascript. When these APIs fail to respond, you would like to have some way to report the error condition [...]
read moreWebsites depend on ads served by third party consolidators to generate revenue. These consolidators API’s to enable the correct advertisement to be shown and analytics collected. These API’s support multiple customer sites and are subject to wide variations in performance. Site using these services suffer under heavy traffic conditions based on poor response time from [...]
read moreaiCache uses the hostname and URL of request as a signature of cached responses. Some sites require different cacheable content in response to requests for the same URLs, depending on a value of a User Agent HTTP header present in the request. User Agent HTTP header identifies browser’s make and model. A site serving mobile [...]
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