Is There Such A Thing As A Content Cache, Like SimpleCDN But Not So Sophisticated?
Apr 9, 2009
I have a site where our budget is very constrained, and we're maxing out our unmetered pipe. The majority of the bandwidth is taken up by an active forum.
I offloaded most of the static content (images, .js, .css files) to a CDN (SimpleCDN) which I've been pretty happy with, the costs are very reasonable and fit within our limited budget.
They offered a service where if the content was not found on their network, it would check on our server for the file, retrieve it, and then serve it up from then on. Which was perfect for us as it allows us to use the CDN to serve image files uploaded by users in such a way that it's transparent to the end user.
However they're discontinuing this service, and though they're offering a similar service (based on rsync), they're charging $150 setup fee! So basically I have to pay $150 to keep using the service I've been using for a while. Which I can't really do.
So I'm trying to think of alternatives. I don't think I really need a full bore CDN, while we do have users from around the world, it's not a business site so a few ms isn't going to be the end of the world.
I just need a file hosting solution that has decent performance and fairly inexpensive bandwidth.
It's only 100-200GB / month maybe. At SimpleCDN that was only costing $8 / month.
I looked at Amazon, but they charge 1 cent for 10,000 requests which for us adds up very fast.
I'd almost think of just signing up for a Dreamhost account, but I would think using them to host just our images probably goes against their ToS.
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Jun 4, 2008
I've got a dedicated server running my portal. Now we plan to soon launch broadcasting, where we via a webcam + microphone will broadcast (streaming WMV media) to all our members. Our members will then be able to interact with the speakers via chatting.
Now we are currently undergoing loadtesting, with our current setup, which is:
1. dedicated server+ultrafast connection=>chatting
2. home PC with static IP and 1 MBit upload=>Video+Audio Streaming
So the member requests a page from the dedicated server, which has a chat window and a windows media player. The player will retrieve the video/audio content from the home PC. This is done by the client.
Now is pretty logical to see that there will be limitations in how many connections the home pc will be able to handle.
The question is: How do i make the dedicated server get the content from the home pc (so it only serves one connection) and then get all the clients to get their video content from the dedicated server ?
I've looked into the proxy modules for the apache server, however they (forward/reverse proxy) both passes the connection on to the remote machine and thereby not doing what I want to do.
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Jun 8, 2009
I was wondering if there are any other CDN provider offering cdn solutions at a similar or lower pricing than SimpleCDN?
Is there any alternative around? Or they are the only one to provide cdn in that price range?
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Jul 27, 2008
into the CDN world, and was wondering if someone had any inputs on it?
I know cachefly is good, but you get more for the $$ here.
Their service looks good, and you get a 15 Credit account to start with.
Havent tested it much but here is some files to test
Their own test file : [url].iso
Mine Small test file : [url
From Leaseweb.nl - (10.0 MB/s) - `ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso' saved [733079552/733079552]
From Leaseweb.nl - (2.21 MB/s) - `test.7z' saved [6373562/6373562]
Both downloaded from the same ip (204.10.171.17)
You can find more files to test here: [url]examples
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Apr 24, 2013
I use apache with CentOS VPS hosting for my blog. I only host one blog in this VPS account. I have 1.5GB RAM and I have 7, 500 page preview per day. My page loading time is 2-3 seconds (according to the pingdom tool).
I want to know what is the best performance (faster web page loading) W3 Total cache option for VPS hosting blog. Currently I use Disk to enhance for page cache and database cache for disk.
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Feb 24, 2009
Whats the Thing what you least look in a Website Hosting company,Organization when you are considering to buy a Package?
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Nov 17, 2007
so after 16 months using vps servers i thing i have it all cleared up. There is no such thing as the 10/10-allmighty-everything-is-so-good provider it all depends in what are you OK with.
Now t3h facts, what i care about a provider is
- Price
- Performance
- Uptime-AKA-Reliability
- Provided Resources
I've been with 4 different providers (SolarVPS, Knownhost, JarguarPC, FutureHosting)
I will not do a long review but i will tell you some facts of my experience with them.
I started with SolarVPS (Mercury Plan 256MB-384MB-10G-200G-Cpanel-unmanaged-33.75), i started having a lot of problems, black zone alerts every day most of the time, bad performance, the server felt really slow, but after many months in the vps market i think it was because 256MB with Cpanel dont play well, specially if you have a busy forum that needs many apache childs and lots of mysql usage. After 1 months using it i jumped off the ship to Knownhost. I started blaming SolarVPS but then i realized it was because 256MB weren't enough for my need. So i can't really talk about them, only 3 weeks but i don't think ill be going back , maybe providers shouldnt offer Cpanel with 256MB systems.
Then the Knownhost Experience (384M-768M-10G-175G-Plesk-semimanaged-42.50), Now after a bad first experience I wanted to go back to shared, but seeing a lot of good reviews about a starter company at that time, I decided to go with them, I used them for 11 months, I can tell you they are reliable, they are good priced, but the performance was my problem.
For example running WHT-UnixBench scored like 60-80 on knownhost, and I had problems with mysql, a lot of queries took too much time and I kept having visitors to the point that apache always reaches the server limit and mysql just wasnt ready to give the results, so the server also reached the memory limits and virtuozzo killed some services and all that, to the point that just wasnt ok with it so I started looking where to move. If you need some reliable service, looking closer to that 99.999% uptime and dont have too much of that resource intensive sites, then imho knownhost is your choice.
I do not know that much of Microprocessors but what I hear is that at this time Intel is really better than AMD, but knownhost stays with AMD for many reasons im sure, I just think that the servers would be a lot faster if they were using Xeons instead of Opterons, but once again Im not 100% sure
Ok now this is where JaguarPC comes into play, when I was looking for the new provider I find out that Jag was running an awesome deal, if i was moving from another provider they will give me 2 months free, and a lot of specials ->(384MB-1G-30G-450G-fully-managed-Plesk-33.50) <- , so that looked like a really really good deal, I did not hesitate and signed up quite fast.
Started up really bad, when they servers were badly configured so they had to restart the entire node to fix settings many times, virtuozzo was going crazy killing processes and all that, but they fixed it and after 5 months with them everything is really good, then only problem is the reliability-uptime, I cant get above 99.89%, they have many downtimes, call it fixing settings, call it patching kernel, call it getting better, still it is a downtime, it is a client calling you cause they cant access the mail, or something like that. (BTW im monitoring the server with host tracker).
So why am I staying with them? , because I get a better Prices $$$ , I get more resources, and at this moment my business does not require 99.999% , im ok with 99.9% uptime, and also my sites works really faster, mysql handles the load like a champ. But if they could increase the uptime they will be the closer to 10/10.
If you noticed I didnt mention futurehosting its because I use them for small experiments, like lighttpd, server administration, as backup server, and other administration learning related tasks. But the servers works really good, im using the Chicago DC and getting better latency than Texas
I hope some day I will use futurehosting more and give a proper review, right now im using the 384MB_SLM-10G-200GB-NoPanel-20$ , everything looks quite good but running unixbench scored less than jaguarpc.
Its just a matter of what you need, and what are you OK, im a student and give hosting to friends and family, I have my own forum that gets many visitors and it is really database intensive, so at this moment im staying with jaguarpc and hope to continue that way
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Nov 6, 2009
i do not know wht happend but when try to download any file useing wget from ssh . i get common error with every thing i try to download.
this example when try to download csf.
# wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz
--2002-01-09 15:18:40-- http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz
Resolving www.configserver.com... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.configserver.com'
and when try to use any coomand , looks like my yum damged or currepted.
example when run:
yum update
[root@ #yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...h=i386&repo=os error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...6&repo=updates error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...86&repo=addons error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...86&repo=extras error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
* base: mirror.linux.duke.edu
* updates: centosv.centos.org
* addons: centosv.centos.org
* extras: mirror.linux.duke.edu
http://download.lxlabs.com/download/...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: lxlabsupdate. Please verify its path and try again
My /etc/resolv.conf looks alright to me
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Aug 8, 2009
I have built a few servers at my home office.
I wanted to ask if there is a data center that might provide additional band wish or backup internet.
By backup internet i mean.
If my internet goes down. It will still be running on a second network.
Not sure how that would truly work however.
My server does connect wireless and the speed is excellent.
However like every provider at times it can go down. Weather, Maintenance etc.
[Mods if this is in the wrong forum just move it to the correct one i think this is the place to put it however]
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Ive worked with Xgrid on Mac OS X Server for a fair bit and its appeared to be great. Is there any thing similar to Xgrid for Linux but free.
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Jul 31, 2007
say you run a script like DIGG and then it just became huge and huge and one day u find out that a server cannot run it alone, that is u need to get multi servers to cope with the traffic and database requests. How would people go about doing that? Is it the script implementation side of change or just server side of change?
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Jun 2, 2008
I have a dedicated server with a provider. They have a notice period of 30 days, to cancel the server. The billing date of the server is 13th of every month.
I sent them the cancellation form on 30th of last month, asking them to terminate the server by 1st of next month (thereby 30 days notice). But they say that they will bill me on this 13th for another full month, and they'll cancel the server only on 13th of next month! WTF? So, the notice period becomes 43 days!
I have never experienced something like this with other providers I'm using but just wanted to know..
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Jun 1, 2007
I just got my servers up, DNS servers what not and my main plesk server for shared/reseller hosting.
Now for the weirdest thing ever!
I started working on my plesk packages a few days ago, after I got plesk installed.
Systems stats as follows
Supermicro AS1021M-T2 barebone
[url]
Has 16GB of infeon DDR2-667 memory.
2 250GB hard drives in mirrored configuration with the Acera 9500 w/ 256MB of memory
Running Cent OS 4.4
For some reason, Everytime I go into Plesk, or any of the websites that are contained in Plesk, The nic card drops out, wont allow any activity to get through, both ways.
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Apr 17, 2009
I have moved my domain out of hostgator like a month ago..
[url]
The whois shows my new nameservers and IP
Why is my page being redirected to hostgator suspended page.
My domain is not even registered with them
the domain is nuzil.com
any reviews about that.
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Apr 28, 2008
the NOCONA and IRWINDALE are old cpu,
i find the main difference of them is L2 cache (1MA2M),
i want to ask what service need more L2 cache?
for example:a lot of db usage? or httpd? or?
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May 17, 2009
I guess I have finally seen the adverse effects of raising the conntrack table max too high.
May 15 09:13:52 cp4 kernel: [6430723.486626] dst cache overflow
May 15 09:13:52 cp4 kernel: [6430723.622616] dst cache overflow
May 15 09:13:56 cp4 kernel: [6430727.562862] dst cache overflow
May 15 09:13:56 cp4 kernel: [6430727.698868] dst cache overflow
May 15 09:13:56 cp4 kernel: [6430727.844221] dst cache overflow
May 15 09:13:56 cp4 kernel: [6430727.991276] dst cache overflow
May 15 09:13:56 cp4 kernel: [6430728.131962] dst cache overflow
I got tons of these during an attack today. I have googled around for a lil while and not have been able to find any useful info on raising this cache level up. Would anyone here know how to do this?
I see no sysctl settings or anything of that nature for it.
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Jul 25, 2009
I'm running shared hosting and would like to keep the amount kept in cache down so that there is always more memory free... how would i go about doing that?
are these values good?
echo 20 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
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Oct 1, 2009
I have reseller account from small web service company.
they are great and better than the famous company.
but I have one problem. I have personal blog, some time I don't see the new comment, also my visitor see the comment before 4 days ago only.
and there is vb forum, some times new member can't login and only you see the old topic, and some times you see everything ok and up to date.
me and all my visitor have the same problem and that can't be from internet service provider because they are from several country.
I had such problem before 4 years and it was because server Cache.
I didn't name the company because they are great and I don't want to blame them before I know certainly what cause the problem.
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Mar 19, 2008
What tools do you use to check for DNS Cache Poisoning ? Is there any way it can be prevented and is the problem very prevalent?
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Jan 27, 2008
I seem to have the opposite problem of what most people complain about... I'm using some custom-built PHP scripts, the output of which is not getting cached. I want the output cached, because it doesn't change often.
If it's relevant, I'm using ob_start() to serve up a GZIP-compressed page.
I start off with a header("Cache-Control: maxage=3600, must-revalidate"). Yes, it's first, and yes, it's showing up properly in the browser.
However, requesting the page again returns an HTTP 200, not the 304 I'm expecting. It's pulling down the whole page again. It's not changing in between requests, and I'm simply visiting the URL again, not hitting Refresh. (Although it really shouldn't matter.)
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Apr 22, 2007
[url]
has an article on mysql query cache.
It notes that in the mysql config file, having
query-cache-type = 1
sets the mysql query cache.
In mysql I note that
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%query_cache%';
outputs
+-------------------+---------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+-------------------+---------+
| have_query_cache | YES |
which indicates that cache is set, but...
find . -name "my.cnf"
./usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/my.cnf
./etc/my.cnf
shows only these
set-variable = max_connections=500
safe-show-database
So where has query cache been set?
At the server level?
If so, am I able to set the query_cache_size and if so, which path?
Anyone have any comments on their mysql optimization on a VPS?
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Jul 15, 2007
I made changes in httpd.conf to redirect website to another website; after 15min I removed redirect but until now when client request website they are redirecting.
I'm sure I remove redirect.
we are locating in UAE, UAE has transparent proxy for all Internet connections so I think the problem in proxy cache, How i can confirm it? then can I avoid it ?
also when I put dot "." at the end of link site working without redirect otherwise it's not working.
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Jun 29, 2009
what does this mean? its been flooding /var/log/messages
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 209.86.63.238#9427: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 209.86.63.230#42462: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 200.23.242.203#37863: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 212.93.151.237#8080: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 212.202.215.18#35119: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 212.93.151.237#40106: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
Jun 28 08:12:50 host named[7649]: client 209.86.63.231#51272: query (cache) 'root.domain.tld/A/IN' denied
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Oct 7, 2009
I'm assuming a corporate proxy cache is what they have set up. I have a client and every time I send them changes to a temporary page I'm hosting for review they can't see it.
They can hit refresh over and over but never see the new updates unless I change the name of the folder its in.
This is very annoying and it only happens with them and one other corporate client i have. They check on multiple computers and it will never refresh and load the new changes. I think this is their network cache that their IT dept. set up.
How can I get around this? I tried an htaccess trick I looked up for expiring files but it didnt work.
These files are on a shared hosting of mine on an Apache server.
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Jul 5, 2009
root@host# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4016936 2598976 1417960 0 138424 1558652
-/+ buffers/cache: 901900 3115036
Swap: 5275640 0 5275640
Eventually, the cache reaches 2600000 and i would like to keep the cache smaller so that the free RAM is always steady around 500k for when a lot of traffic comes through.
is there a way to clear the old cache out faster?
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How do I setup a RamDisk or a tmpfs mount? I want to setup cache_dir in memory.
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eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
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Which would you choose:
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What is your opinioun on the subject?
How could it be done?
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Aug 11, 2007
We just upgraded our server with 8 brand new seagate cheetah 15k.5's, a battery backup unit, and a 256mb dimm for the raid controller. In the boot process, i noticed an error about caching or something.
After analyzing the dmesg log, i found the error:
sda: asking for cache data failed
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
It seems like the kernel can't get to the raid controllers cache, so it switches to the write through setting.
I've benchmarked the harddisks with the write through, and write back setting. The odd thing is that both settings deliver the same performance.
Normally, write back increases the performance with like 100%... That's why we bought the battery backup unit.
So something is going wrong, but where lays the problem?
Server:
Quote:
8 X seagate cheetah 15k.5, U320, 16mb cache, SCA, 73GB
1 X chenbro backplane, U320, SCA, 2 channels, 8 ports
1 X LSI megaraid 320-2x raid controller, U320, 2 channels, battery pack and 256 upgraded dimm
6 GB DDR PC3200, ECC, CL3
2 X AMD opteron dual cores (4 X 2.0 ghz)
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What would you do? A cron job to remove these files maybe?
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