Understanding Web Acceleration

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Mario

Usually, a high traffic website must support hundreds of thousands or millions of users. Not to mention the demand of user for a fast and reliable website. Therefore, to meet such high volumes, some web developers prefer to add more server hardware.

However, this method can be expensive. So, in order to reduce your operational cost, you can use web acceleration as another option. Web acceleration produces better speed delivery of both static and dynamic content. Furthermore, it will enable your web servers to handle more client request without the need for more hardware.

In general, web acceleration is a content delivery network. It aims to speed up the transfer of content between web servers and client browsers by utilizing a variety of techniques such as caching and compression.

HTTP Optimization
Load balancer or reverse proxy server is one of the primary ways to accelerate web traffic as it flows between clients and backend servers. However, this can create inefficiencies in server utilization and cause poor performance for other users as well.

In HTTP optimization techniques, the load balancer is in between clients and servers. It forwards requests for content to backend servers in a streamlined and efficient way. Therefore, this method maximizes speed and server utilization.

Caching and Prefetching
Rather than fetching it over and over from back end servers, web acceleration server cache or locally store commonly requested information. This will avoid any wasted server resources and increase the speed of content delivery. In fact, to prevent serving content that is out of date, the web accelerator will refresh cached content at a specified interval.

Furthermore, the web accelerator is also able to prefetch and cache content that the user is likely to ask for, such as the next page of a document. This method will enable web accelerator to deliver the content immediately after the user requests it.

Compression
To reduce transfer times, a web accelerator will compress large files, such as image or video files.

SSL/TLS Processing
In order to serve content faster, some advanced web accelerators can offload computationally intensive processing from backend servers. For example, encryption and decryption of documents during transmissions secured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS).

5 Ways to Choose a Perfect Domain Name

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Mario

Domain name is the key element of your site, especially if you are working in SEO service area. But, why this short line of words can be that important? There are 3 main reasons why you should put more effort on your domain name. First, it is because it’s your site’s first impression, it affects SEO, and it defines your brand. So, you know why it is important to have a perfect domain name. Now, it’s your turn to create one. Here are some tips that you can do to produce a perfect domain name.

Brand-able Over Generic

Your domain name is terribly important as it is where visitors will find, remember, and share your company name. Therefore, a good domain name should not only easy to remember but also engage good meaning. This way, it will increase people’s trust on your site. For example, “UnitedHealthCareOnline.com” and “Anthem.com” emphasizes better meaning rather than Newhealthinsurance.com or Healthinsurancesort.com. This is because those names stand for something. Furthermore, those names provide trust factor for those who hear it.

Easy to type and Easy to Pronounce

Avoid creating too complicated domain name. Consider to use easy to spell name, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, yahoo, CNN and many others. You can ask 10 people to spell or pronounce your domain name. If more than a few people struggle to pronounce it, you need to simplify it.

Therefore, you should also avoid any hyphens and numbers usage as this will make things more difficult. So, only use letters on your domain name.

Consider Using Keywords

In order to improve your SEO, using keywords on your domain name is such a good move. However, you need to consider it carefully. Sometimes, using keywords can cause your domain name sounded and looked awkward. Then it can be end up as generic. Therefore, you better put your keywords at the beginning of your domain. It will work on your ranking powerfully.

Use the Right Domain Name Extension

When it comes to choosing your domain name “.com” is still the best. However, if you would like to have other options, you can go with second option, “.net” and third option, “.org”. Remember to always avoid using weird extension, such as “.club”, “.space”, “.pizza” and so on.

Use a Domain Name Generator to Gather Ideas

At this point, you have all you need to create a good domain name. However, what if you don’t have time to think about a perfect name for your domain? or your perfect name has been taken already? Don’t worry you can use domain name generators. These generators can find fresh and available name for your domains. For example, you can try Wordoid, Lean Domain Search, or DomainHole.

How to Create an Awesome Logo without Any Design Skills

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Mario

Making a perfect logo requires you a good design skill, but what if you don’t have any design skills but want to have a logo design? Don’t worry for now you can try many tools that can help you produce good logo design without even creating any design by yourself. So, whoever you are; web developer or mobile developer, you can create your own logo design.

But, first you need to know some basic design rules, such as below:

Use only 1 or 2 colors

Less color schemes will make people easier to remember your color signature. For example, in Youtube logo, red is the dominant color. Therefore, this color will come to your mind once you think about Youtube. In fact, this color has become Youtube’s icon. Besides, each color will deliver certain meanings. So, pick the right color will convey the right meaning to your users.

Use Simple Graphics

Simple graphics is used to make your logo’s design is easy to remember. Therefore, you better avoid using overly elaborate logo design. You can use 8 years old child as your parameter, if they are able to draw your logo easily, you have succeeded then.

Use Versatile graphics

Your logo not only will be displayed on website or social media account but also on your business cards and other formats. So, you have to ask yourself several questions, such as:

Will the logo work in horizontal and vertical formats?
Will it look good if it is in just 1 color?
Will it still be recognizable if it is scaled down like on a business card?

Now you have the basic knowledge to create logos. But, you still don’t have any skill to create logos, so how? Now, you can use logo makers and generators to help you finish the job. But, more importantly you don’t need to have any design skills. Besides, it only takes you less time compare to deal with hiring designers.

Here are some logo’s makers and generators that you can choose to help you creating logos:

#1 Tailor brands

It is one of the best logo generators we’ve tested because they actually design the logo for you. Instead of design a logo specifically for you, they use an algorithm that will choose and recommend a number of logos automatically based on the designs you actually like.

So, what you need to do is to scroll through an image library with hundreds of graphics. From the library, you choose an image you want as your logo. But what happened if you still cannot find the right logos after hundreds of graphics or font styles? Well, this tool will ask you few design questions to find out what type of design appeals to you. Based on your answers, Tailor Brands will suggest and create a logo they think will best match your design style.

So here is how the process works:

Insert your business name.
Describe your business in 1 sentence (think about how you want people to remember you).
Choose between the types of logos you like (you can choose more than 1 logo types):
Icon Based Logo – uses an easy to remember shape in the center of your logo design.
Name Based Logo – uses your company name as the key element of your logo design.
Initial Based Logo – uses your company initials as the main element of your logo design.
What type of font design you like – they show you a series of font styles and you can answer “yes or no”. Based on the type of font styles you say yesto, the algorithm will know what design styles you like.

Now, you can get your design less than a minute. Awesome!

#2 Squarespace

Squarespace is a super easy to use and they can offer you with a decent graphic library. This makes them not only an amazing website builder, but also a really good logo maker. In fact, Squarespace makes a good choice if you want to produce a high-resolution logo. However, as it is free, so you cannot expect the same result of graphic selection and customization like Tailor Brands.

How the process works:

Insert your business name.
Choose an image from the image library.
You can move the image to the top/bottom/left/right of your business name. You can even customize the image size using the built-in drag & drop tools.
You can customize the color and font style

#3 Graphic Springs

Graphic Springs is one of the best logo customization tools we’ve seen. The process of picking your logo is pretty straight forward with Graphic Springs;

Insert your business name
Pick a graphic as your logo

Then, you can move the logo graphic to the top, bottom, left or right of your business name. You can even resize the logo image using its drag &drop tools. Of course, you can change the color, font styling, and all the typical customizations you get with logo generators.

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