Comments on: FrontEnders http://imgiseverything.co.uk/articles/frontenders/ Manchester web designer Phil Thompson Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Howie http://imgiseverything.co.uk/articles/frontenders/#comment-112011 Howie Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:34:01 +0000 http://imgiseverything.co.uk/?p=3648#comment-112011 Phil Thanks for sharing your experience with dealing with a popular site, and setting up Amazon S3. I can't help but think that, with the traffic stats you quote, S3 is overkill. With correct caching, this sort of load should not ber an issue. I took a quick look at the site. The page itself has a max-age of zero and no E-Tag/If-Modified since header . Basically, you're telling the browser and any proxy/caching servers not to cache the page. If you look at the headers provided by the assets now on S3 they do have these headers. A few lines in your Apache .htaccess fiel might well have done the trick http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/caching-tutorial-for-webmasters.html Phil

Thanks for sharing your experience with dealing with a popular site, and setting up Amazon S3. I can’t help but think that, with the traffic stats you quote, S3 is overkill. With correct caching, this sort of load should not ber an issue.

I took a quick look at the site. The page itself has a max-age of zero and no E-Tag/If-Modified since header . Basically, you’re telling the browser and any proxy/caching servers not to cache the page. If you look at the headers provided by the assets now on S3 they do have these headers.

A few lines in your Apache .htaccess fiel might well have done the trick

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/caching-tutorial-for-webmasters.html

]]> By: Phil Thompson http://imgiseverything.co.uk/articles/frontenders/#comment-112012 Phil Thompson Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:59:34 +0000 http://imgiseverything.co.uk/?p=3648#comment-112012 Thanks for the info Howie, I too felt that Amazon S3 was overkill but everything else didn't seem to work. (although admittedly I didn't try modifying the headers). However, I'm glad I tried out Amazon S3 and worked out how it works so when a project comes a long that truly does need it I won't be flummoxed by it. Thanks for the info Howie, I too felt that Amazon S3 was overkill but everything else didn’t seem to work. (although admittedly I didn’t try modifying the headers). However, I’m glad I tried out Amazon S3 and worked out how it works so when a project comes a long that truly does need it I won’t be flummoxed by it.

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