Alternative to PipeBoost?

very expensive

[txbakers]

I recently installed the demo for Pipe Boost on my IIS server. It seems to be very happy, but I'll have my users check in as well.

However, the price is $1500! More than the (*&*& operating system!

Does anyone know of an alternative to PipeBoost that isn't so costly?

[Xoc]

Want to give a short description of what Pipe Boost is supposed to do for you?

[txbakers]

Pipe boost is a plug in program for IIS that acts like an HTML compression booster. It's very comprehensive and it seems to work well when I installed it. It helped to speed up users loading of my ASP pages.

But the cost is $1500! Twice the OS! I don't think it's worth that much.

You can read up on it at pipeboost.com

[Paully]

txbakers,

Have you tried tinkering with the IIS built in compression settings?

[txbakers]

no, I'm afraid to muck it up - being Microsoft and all. I'd hate to mess something up and have to rebuild the OS, which I've done before.

[Paully]

Just a suggestion.

1) Run an image on the drive, so that if anything happends, you can restore the image of your hard drive the way, exactly the way you saved it.

2) Read on the internet, about IIS HTTP compression, plenty of info avail.

3) Test the d/l speed of a large html pages. Use any method you like. Record this info.

4) Go to IIS, right click on your server name, go to service, put check marks in the boxes near HTTP compression.

5) Test and compare results.

--The problem is, although the page size may be smaller. The load on the server compressing the page, may negate the d/l time savings.

--FYI: I have it turned off, and dont use Pipeburst or any compression methods. Seems and tests faster for my server.

[txbakers]

Thanks. My site is ASP, with heavy read/write to the DB on every page. Any speed might help.

[port80]

Maybe you can try httpZip. At $299 it's a lot easier on your wallet than PipeBoost.

[edited by: Xoc at 3:58 pm (utc) on Dec. 8, 2002]

[JuDDer]

I've had my eye on XCompress from XCache Technologies for a little while and it looks good: [xcompress.com...]

I think they're due to bring out a new version towards the end of December.

There's a little tool on the website where you can enter your url and it will show you how much it can be compressed - looks very impressive!