Maybe a little off topic from A4D, but definitely web related... I've
always been disappointed at 4D's speed at serving pictures, especially
on my SSL pages. Today I played around with hosting the images only on
my 2003 Server using IIS. WOW, the results were great. I don't have
any hard metrics, but it's noticeable faster and it's got me thinking
it's a worthwhile endeavor to host all my static images from something
other than 4D.
My idea is to create a session variable that would have the path to the
site's static images. Something like:
Set Session("Images"; "https://images.domain.com/this_site/";)
And then whenever I needed to use an image, call it like:
<img src="<%=Get Session("Images")%>picture.jpg">
This way it would be easy to move the images to wherever needed and
update an entire website with one session variable.
1) Is this a good idea?
2) Any gotcha's I should consider?
3) I'm not much of a web guy, but it seems the "industry standard" is
to use Apache on Linux. If I go this route, any suggestions on which
build of Linux? Can you recommend a book or resource to get me going?
(I know zip about using Linux or Apache)
4) Any other thoughts?
Thanks!
Jason
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