----- Original Message ----- From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dirk-Willem van Gulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:13 AM Subject: Re: [important proposal] Cocoon as official Apache project
> "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pier Fumagalli wrote: > > > >> Daedalus and Icarus are located in San Francisco, and Proxy-Pass is (IMVHO), > >> a quite silly idea... Not only we need bandwidth to _deliver_ pages, we also > >> need bandwidth to _retrieve_ the pages... > > > > Agree, but it would be a nice solution to distribute the load, > > especially for not-so-dynamic content. I was thinking of the combination > > of mod_proxy together with mod_cache anyhow. I'll be testing this > > somewhere next week on a private server. Works. I've used it quite a bit. > > > > Given this setup, the Cocoon community has the ability to showcase its > > technology while still benefiting from the kind bandwidth donation of > > Collab/Sun. I know it sounds like piggybacking, but it would provide us > > with a nice balance of being able to do our own thing, possibly > > attracting other co-sponsors, until we are able to provide both CPU > > cycles and bandwidth ourselves. > > Can't you just redirect? I mean... If you have to showcase static content > (that's where mod_cache could help), you can generate it offline, and put it > up on daedalus as static HTML files, and forget about it... > > If you're generating dynamic content, mod_cache wouldn't help (as it's > dynamic), and it would only make things harder... > > (what's "not-so-dynamic content, btw?) Many of the dynamically generated Cocoon pages are cacheable and provide expiration header. Which means that they are static for some period of time, say 1 hour or 1 day. During that time all request for the URL can be served by a cacheing proxy server without loading the app server. > > Or am I _waaay_ off the hook here? > > Pier > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
