At MRM Hosting your web pages and scripts load
blazingly fast thanks to our Page
Booster engine. Using a combination of
industry standard caching & compression software
from Zend™, IntenseSpeed™ and HyperSpace
Communications, we're able to maximize the
performance of our servers and minimize page
loading times.
Cache
The first technology we use to speed up our
server is a method known as caching. Caching
engines are implemented to reduce page loading
time and script execution by performing
optimizations and various types of caching,
using advanced techniques that yield much better
performance -- usually from two to four times
more requests per second. These engines also
play an important part in cutting down latency
by as much as 20-fold, by preventing dynamic
pages from doing any repetitive work, and
reducing the turnaround time for each request.
Compression
The second method we use to boost our server
performance is SS/Compression using mod_gzip, a
compression module which uses the standard zlib
compression library to compress output. The idea
is to compress data being sent out from the Web
server, and have the browser decompress this
data on the fly, thus reducing the amount of
data sent and increasing the page display speed.
Using HTTP compression, a performance gain of
150-160% is achieved across all Lypha.com web
servers. Using HTTP Compression web pages can be
90% or so smaller and images can be up to 50% or
so smaller (depending on how much they are
compressed already).
More information about HTTP compression can be
found
here.
Detailed benchmarks and test results can be
found
here.