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aiCache is a unique product, capable of taking your web site to the next level in terms of speed, availability and user satisfaction. aiCache is a unique product, capable of taking your web site to the next level in terms of speed, availability and user satisfaction. aiCache will accelerate content delivery, scale number of requests per second (RPS), handle your HTTPS transaction while providing real-time reporting on the performance of your site.

Company:

aiCache.com

Inquiry e-mail address:

support@aicache.com

Amazon Web Services used:

Amazon S3
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Beta)
Amazon DevPay

Solution URL:

http://aicache.com/cloud_amazon.html

Audience:

Amazon Associates
Developers
Businesses

Pricing:

For a fee

How does this application use Amazon Web Services?

Amazon EC2 Instances, Devpay

Description

Site Acceleration

Pages load faster with with over 250,000 RPS (requests per second) served directly from aiCache; freeing capacity in the web farm.

HTTPS support with over 2Gbps of raw AES256 bulk encryption throughput and over 15,000 RSA-1024 sessions per second on common 64bit hardware.

Flexible pattern matching and TTL's give precise control of the cache configuration.

Flexible document freshness controls including cookie-driven and on-demand header-driven cache expiration.

Execute customer-specific code via straightforward and easy-to-implement plugin architecture at the edge.

Highly Available, cluster aware with VIP support.

Diagnostics & Monitoring

Advanced CLI, web and SNMP interface for management, monitoring and troubleshooting.

Monitors and reports health of origin servers while allowing hot swap of servers failing health check.

Built-in smart, non-flooding alerts on RPS, response time, number of client or server connections.

Real time Monitoring

Protection & Security

Industries most advanced DOS (Denial of Service) and DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection including reverse-turing and access tokens.

Protects against malformed URL's with detailed reporting on malicious attacks.

Admin fallback feature keeps site operational during a catastrophic failure.

Cost Control

aiCache reduces hardware, software, and hosting requirements.

Diagnostics, reporting and smart alerts reduce site support costs.

Mobile Support

Identifies mobile devices and serves the correct content based on capabilities of device.

Prefetch feature accelerates mobile ad-serving of non-cacheable responses, such as slower 3rd party Advertising APIs.

The Extras Load balances requests across a number of origin web servers. Supports server pooling.

Enforces cache authentication for sites requiring logged in users.

SEO friendly on the fly URL re-writing.

One single simple text file configuration. No XML!

THE DETAILS

See video

aiCache EC2 Wiki

Customers like Woot.com use aiCache to scale in the cloud.

aiCache is available on the Rightscale management platform.

You can Order here.

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Easiest caching server we've found, Sep 16, 2009 1:55 PM
Reviewer: mitchua

We were looking for something to help keep as much load as possible off our Windows origin servers. Our website is subject to extreme spikes in traffic, and there are make requests that can be cached. The caching layer needs to allow through requests with cookied sessions, while servering up cached versions of the same URLs to the general public. Varnishd and Nginx were both considered, and did basic caching well. But both were difficult to set-up, and responding to cookied sessions significantly reduced their maximum throughput. We've now used aiCache during several large events, and the CPU is hardly pressed at all. The rules we put in place to respond to errors and downtime on origin servers has allowed us to maintain excellent uptime. The support from aiCache had been excellent. They were able to create a new feature for us in under 24 hours, and we have never had a problem getting them on the line when we have questions. aiCache is a great product for companies that require a caching layer, but are not ready for a full CDN. You don't get the added benefit of geo-caching, but 1 aiCache server can handle a lot of traffic. At the point where you need two load-balanced aiCache servers, the CDN might become a more attractive option. But with aiCache supporting 25,000 req/s, the average website is going to take a long time before they hit that ceiling.

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