Tag: performance

Project Shield – a DDoS protection layer from Google

Project Shield is not a mainstream service yet, just an idea that Google is trying out, but still, I think it’s worth a mention.

Project Shield is an initiative launched by Google Ideas to use Google’s own Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack mitigation technology to protect free expression online. The service allows other websites to serve their content through Google’s infrastructure without having to move their hosting location.

There is also a video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmTvv8ISwPA]

Dynamic Website Compressor

Dynamic Website Compressor

Dynamic Website Compressor

 

I haven’t tested it enough myself yet, but it looks very much like Google’s mod_pagespeed.  The difference mostly being with Google approaching the problem via the Apache module, which should be faster, but less portable; and Dynamic WebSite Composer doing all its magic in your regular PHP.  The only way I can think for this to work is via output buffering, so if you are using that in your application, test thoroughly.