Web Accelerators - snake oil or miracle remedy?

Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 11:32PM
jab in General Discussion

Perhaps this question is borderline off-topic but since high scalability solutions often have a global aspect I will give it a try...

Have anybody had any experience with different techniques for speeding up their application to places that have a problem with poor ping response time? Ideally I would love to be running only one data center world-wide but one day I know that our sales department will sign up a customer with an unacceptable response time... Could installing a web-accelerator in front of our application extend the reach of our current data center or will we just add complexity and another source of potential errors?

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).