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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris, You should consider setting up a "donation fund" for stuff like this. There are many of us who dont have the $$$ for .NET or MSDN, but can surley throw down $20 or more to support our site! Maybe even offer a minimum donation level for "supporter" status, or different levels of "supporter" status... Just a thought. ~Nitron.
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When you upgrade to IIS6, compressed HTTP streams are already "built-in" if you didn't know. You have to use a shell script to enable it in the metabase, but there's some easy step-by-step documents in Microsoft's KB about how to do this. Just seems better to have it handled by the product code than to use some third-party filter. Glad to see everything's coming along well! I suppose I'll have to do some real work tomorrow afternoon through the evening now, though. :((
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Heath Stewart wrote: You have to use a shell script to enable it in the metabase, but there's some easy step-by-step documents in Microsoft's KB about how to do this. Do you mean for individual sites? When I right click and go to the properties of the main web node (the one that all other sites are under in IIS Manager), under the "service" tab, I can enable HTTP Compression. I do remember reading an article on how to specify which files will be compressed. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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Chris, You should consider setting up a "donation fund" for stuff like this. There are many of us who dont have the $$$ for .NET or MSDN, but can surley throw down $20 or more to support our site! Maybe even offer a minimum donation level for "supporter" status, or different levels of "supporter" status... Just a thought. ~Nitron.
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Chris, You should consider setting up a "donation fund" for stuff like this. There are many of us who dont have the $$$ for .NET or MSDN, but can surley throw down $20 or more to support our site! Maybe even offer a minimum donation level for "supporter" status, or different levels of "supporter" status... Just a thought. ~Nitron.
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startNitron wrote: are many of us who dont have the $$$ for .NET or MSDN, but can surley throw down $20 or more to support our site! Agreed. Where's the donation link? :)
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Heath Stewart wrote: compressed HTTP streams are already "built-in" Yep, and Port80 expressly recommends using the built in compression since II6 compression out of the box is better even than what they can provide. They have a product called ZipEnable that provides a GUI for the compression and caching setup in IIS 6 cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: Yep, and Port80 expressly recommends using the built in compression since II6 compression out of the box is better even than what they can provide. They have a product called ZipEnable that provides a GUI for the compression and caching setup in IIS 6 I just gave a speech on HTTP Compression yesterday. It's funny that content encoding has been around since HTTP 1.1 (fully) and browser support has been around for quite a while too, however many servers don't implement compression - be it third-party or natively. Glad to hear you have implementing it. :) - Nick Parker
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Here's the latest on What's Going On: Yesterday: Someone stuck a back-hoe through one of the fibre cables of our main Telco in downtown Toronto. This affected connection times for us and many other businesses for many hours. We didn't even bother yelling at the appropriate people because they sounded stressed enough as it was. This has now been fixed. Done Today: We now have 90% of our scheduled hardware upgrades done. Some upgraded web servers to handle current load, a new content DB server, dual firewalls with automatic failover, new switches and gigabit ethernet cards for inter-server communication (we're crying over not being able to afford fibre) and new cases all round. I've also installed Port80 Software's HttpZip[^] in the hope of speeding things up for those with slower connections. PLEASE - any comments on caching issues or corrupt downloads please email me at chris@codeproject.com.. Tomorrow: We're moving to our new hosted facility that will provide us with redundant internet connections, backup power, fire, security and a nifty thumbprint scan doorway. We'll also be increasing our bandwidth capacity 10 fold and reducing the latency to the closest backbone. Should mean a nice increase in connection speed and no more bottlenecks at peak times. This will mean an outage tomorrow afternoon starting at around 1pm US Eastern Standard Time. In the works: A complete rewrite of the site. Better DB and caching utilisation, a move to Win2003 and IIS6, and increases in web, download and DB access all round. To be done: clustering of database servers and more web servers. Another mail server to handle the load. Further DB work and caching optimisations. Always happening: More servers. As many as we can afford. The pain over the past few months with slow load time, bandwidth bottlenecks, slow page access due to slow DB servers and outages caused by Things Beyond Our Control have been extremely frustrating to us and we're sure to our readers. We are working our bums off trying to improve access to CodeProject for everyone. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Heath Stewart wrote: You have to use a shell script to enable it in the metabase, but there's some easy step-by-step documents in Microsoft's KB about how to do this. Do you mean for individual sites? When I right click and go to the properties of the main web node (the one that all other sites are under in IIS Manager), under the "service" tab, I can enable HTTP Compression. I do remember reading an article on how to specify which files will be compressed. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
By default, IIS6 only compression files with the extensions .htm, .html, and .txt. Using the script allows you to specify compression for other extensions. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234497[^] for more information.
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By default, IIS6 only compression files with the extensions .htm, .html, and .txt. Using the script allows you to specify compression for other extensions. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234497[^] for more information.
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Yeah, the reference I was looking at before was: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/IIS/6/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/iis/6/all/techref/en-us/iisrg_per_ulek.asp[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com