Webafrica Trial and caching

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Who has noticed that webafrica does aggresive caching. I have a mainpage on one of my websites which updates regularly, i have set the caching to 3 minutes (180 seconds) but it looks like webafrica cache ignores this and cahces it much longer
(I have to wait a long time about an hour before I see the updated page):mad:
I never had these problems previously
 
They're doing all sorts of funky things with their proxies. They also seem to be doing shaping irrespective of whether you are on a shaped or an unshaped account.

Been trying to download a ISO off one of the local linux mirrors and its coming down at 2kB/s :sick:
 
relax guys
they said that the performance will not reflect the final product
this is just a trial
 
ldmelsa said:
relax guys
they said that the performance will not reflect the final product
this is just a trial
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Yes but if they cache international pages forever now, they are not really testing there available international bandwidth and its performance, it is quick to send a local cached copy, but is not so fun for dynamic sites I have now set all possibe headers to not cache at all see if that solves the problem as the wa proxy/cache server ignores low caching times
 
ldmelsa said:
relax guys
they said that the performance will not reflect the final product
this is just a trial
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Pfft. will not reflect the final product? So in other words they're doing all this tweaking in vain, and none of it will remain on the final product? Hahaha - Sorry but as much as I appreciate having being given the opportunity to be part of this trial (free bandwidth :D), I can't say I'm impressed. They've successfully replicated what we all hate from SAIX: shaping, throttled transparent cache servers. You'd think the competition would see the light and scrap those ancient ideas. I'm fine with a transparent cache server, but not if it's going to limit my youtube buffer to 50KB/s like SAIX does... @#!$ that! In addition to those problems is the fact that they're not (yet) part of JINX, as I pointed out earlier in this thread - so all routing goes through cape town, making gaming (or other low-latency demand applications) bad for people in JHB
 
Hahaha, you understand what a trial is right? You get something for FREE and when you have an issue you let them know and and quite possibly it will be a bug that they can fix. To jump to the gun on a public forum with negativity does not help anyone.
 
James said:
Hahaha, you understand what a trial is right? You get something for FREE and when you have an issue you let them know and and quite possibly it will be a bug that they can fix. To jump to the gun on a public forum with negativity does not help anyone.
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They have representatives on this forum. The whole point of the trial is to get feedback - negative feedback is no exception. Relax, listen, share your ideas/ problems too, and let them make the service better.
 
Definitely feedback IMO. I am sure WA reads all their related threads here and takes all feedback, positive or negative, as valuable input for their tests. The OP related an issue which was relevant to him, so sure, it's feedback they requested.
 
James said:
Post #1 is a rant not feedback
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I see it as feedback on the part of a website owner who is negativlly affected due to excessive caching of its site (so I can be a website owner who is not testing out their adsl trial, but still my website is affected by it)

I have had some instability as well, but I didn't complain about that because I realise it is a trial and expect some downtime etc.
 
fragtion_ said:
Pfft. will not reflect the final product? So in other words they're doing all this tweaking in vain, and none of it will remain on the final product? Hahaha - Sorry but as much as I appreciate having being given the opportunity to be part of this trial (free bandwidth :D), I can't say I'm impressed. They've successfully replicated what we all hate from SAIX: shaping, throttled transparent cache servers. You'd think the competition would see the light and scrap those ancient ideas. I'm fine with a transparent cache server, but not if it's going to limit my youtube buffer to 50KB/s like SAIX does... @#!$ that! In addition to those problems is the fact that they're not (yet) part of JINX, as I pointed out earlier in this thread - so all routing goes through cape town, making gaming (or other low-latency demand applications) bad for people in JHB
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yeah, youtube sucks
funny thing is that i can get 440KB/s (average) while streaming 480p trailers from quicktime:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/surrogates/hd/
my screen grab:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2619/3989334351_2ff156918e_o.jpg
note "net meter"

I don't know nothing about the tech stuff
does this have anything to do with that caching you talked about?
 
detritus said:
AFAIK Quicktime trailers are hosted on the Akamai CDN, so you're most likely downloading from a local source.
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+1

I can confirm this, majority of QT HD trailers are available to download irrespective of WA or Ti accounts.

I mostly grab the 1080p ones :D:p
 
moklet said:
Who has noticed that webafrica does aggresive caching. I have a mainpage on one of my websites which updates regularly, i have set the caching to 3 minutes (180 seconds) but it looks like webafrica cache ignores this and cahces it much longer
(I have to wait a long time about an hour before I see the updated page):mad:
I never had these problems previously
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The engineers at WA tend to respond more frequently to the feedback on the WA Trial Forum, perhaps you should post these issues there to get a direct response.
 
detritus said:
AFAIK Quicktime trailers are hosted on the Akamai CDN, so you're most likely downloading from a local source.
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Cool. If you stick the URLs in your download manager, can you use your local, at the end of the month, to pull them?
 
I can confirm that SVN over http does not work with WebAfrica's trial account either. Their transparent proxy cache does something strange.

By the way, I've noticed that there is no transparent proxy with Afrihost's IS accounts.
 
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