6 Ways To Improve Website Performance

Posted under website performance by admin on Friday 18 September 2009 at 10:51

website-performanceThere are 6 basic strategies to improve your website performance.  I am going to name them in this post and describe them more thoroughly in my future materials. Of course, you cannot boost your website performance if you do only one thing. But if you succeed in at least 3 – your site’s visitors will definitely appreciate your effort!

Here are the strategies:

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Web Load Stress Testing: Are Cloud Services Reliable?

Posted under web load stress test by admin on Wednesday 9 September 2009 at 10:41

Someone must stress-test the cloud if we want to take it seriously, as a real IT resource for the real business. On the last week some Australian researchers took up the challenge, and the stress-tests showed that the infrastructure of on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft suffers from regular performance and availability issues. Researchers have created a web load stress test that simulated 2200 simultaneous user connections to applications hosted on Amazon EC2, Google AppEngine platform and Microsoft Azure Cloud computing.

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