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Twenty Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with Your Apache Web Server Caching

While working on optimizing page load times for a high-profile AJAX application, I had a chance to investigate how much I could reduce latency due to external objects. Specifically, I looked into how the HTTP client implementation in common browsers and characteristics of common Internet connections affect page load time for pages with many small objects.

Lingerd is a daemon (service) designed to take over the job of properly closing network connections from an http server like Apache.