Start-up picks up pace for busy Websites
SpiderCache in Vancouver, British Columbia, calls Players-Racing.com the poster child for how its caching software can boost performance at even the most dynamic, multimedia-rich Websites.
Run by VFX Digital Solutions, a new-media development company in Richmond, British Columbia, the auto racing Website is subject to peaks and valleys that can bring sharply heavier loads as fans log in to view up-to-the-minute results and videocasts. And the content of its Web pages changes constantly.
Speeding up those pages was a challenge. Dedicated content delivery networks from companies such as Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., wouldn't be much help in handling such content because they cache static pages that are the same for every user. VFX president Coniah Chuang chose SpiderCache because it can handle his database's dynamic content.
"The customers don't know about it," Chuang says. "They just know it's quick."
Web page dynamics
SpiderCache was hatched two years ago when product development manager and cofounder Michael Corcoran, then lead developer at educational site Brainium, asked himself, "Why does dynamic content need to be generated over and over again, when the same thing is being generated?" That realization led Corcoran to design SpiderCache and co-found the company with fellow Brainium technologist Greg Parker last June. They released their first product three months later.
SpiderCache, which is available for Windows and Unix Web servers, analyzes incoming Web page requests and caches page elements that site administrators preselect.
"In the best-case scenario, SpiderCache will turn your dynamic Website into a static Website by caching all of your pages," says Corcoran, who claims that customers see as much as a fortyfold performance gain. The software also lets Web administrators tweak performance with "parameterized caching" that lets them select pages for caching based on properties such as the
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