" as long as there's been a Web, people have been trying to make it faster."

good quote:" More often than not, this image is an animated GIF 
advertising something you don't want."

book is for modem days...

the whole book could be like this:

Buy a bigger pipe.  
Buy a better server.  
Buy more RAM and increase cache sizes.  
Buy better disks.  
Get the latest software.  


using 'guts' for checking systems:"
A real system to build on also gives you a gut- 
level feel for the kind of performance you can expect. You can use this feel to check your analytical model 
against reality."

this book is really outdated

bandwidth formula:
hits/second * average size of a hit in bits = bits/second 

latency and throughput.

this book is boring and old and the font is really small. even though its only 200 pages it's going to  take forever to finish. i've been reading almost an hour and i've only read 45 pages.

the thing is, we are getting to the point where performance isnt even an issue anomore because computers are so fast. so people who specialize in optimizing servers and computers are now outdated.

the book was written in 1998

old old old:" He has an old Pentium 75Mhz laptop with a 512KB L2 
cache and 24MB of RAM running Linux and Netscape. He hooks up the cable modem and views a few well- 
known sites. He sees that he is, in fact, getting better than 50KB/s viewing the surgical journals over the cable 
modem. The expert tries out one of their Macintosh PowerBook 5300cs laptops and finds that it does indeed get 
only 4KB/s."

busiest sites on the net!:

AltaVista  
AOL  
City.Net  
CNET  
CNN  
Excite  
Geocities  
Magellan  
Microsoft  
Netscape  
Pathfinder  
Starwave  
Warner Bros.  
Yahoo! 

to measure something is to change it

perfect! "Reading Is Fundamental"

haha clues you are finished "for the moment":

• Your users no longer notice improvements. 
• Your violations of good programming style in the quest for performance make the code unportable and 
unmaintainable. 
• You are considering writing in assembly language. 
• Your total cost per hit is greater than hiring someone to staff a telephone and fax the information on 
demand. 
• You are getting very annoyed. 

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then 
you and I will each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, 
then each of us will have two ideas."  

good browsers listed; netscape, ie, mosaic!, lynx!

i think this dude just tried to think of as many dumb tips he could to speed up internet surfing and just put them in a book.

chapter 8 is about buying the best hardware for webrowsing.

9.4.5 Placing Blame 

Don't worry about CPU, just concentrate on having a good network connection, fast disk, and enough 
memory. 

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nice little picture!

apache is the most sucessful web server

"Why name your web server "www?" It's easy to type, but impossible to say. Please use one syllable rather than 
nine - name your web server "web." Instead of "www.company.com," use "web.company.com." The radio 
announcers of the world will thank you. "