Accelerator

A web accelerator provides optimization and security to web traffic for HTTP and HTTPS by focusing on two key areas– client and server facing optimizations . Both, client and server optimizations are intended to ensure that pages load faster for y...

Command-line example for deleting matching content in the Snapt Aria Web Accelerator cache (purge). This is useful for deployment scripts, etc. You will be calling the snaptNginx.purgeCacheString method with the argument array of (string). The chang...

You occasionally need to collect certain information at your application that cannot–and even shouldn’t–be passed through  GET or POST methods. For example, if your server is behind a reverse proxy (and such is the case with Snapt Aria), you migh...

Error [emerg] could not build the proxyheadershash, you should increase either proxyheadershashmaxsize: 512 or proxyheadershashbucketsize: 64 Symptom If the Snapt Aria Web Accelerator Version is below 5.2 then it might experience difficu...

You can download the datasheet for the Snapt Aria Web Accelerator below. Download the attached PDF.

If you have a busy Web Accelerator you might see a set of errors like this in your log — 2014/01/25 09:06:52 alert 7345#0: 5000 worker_connections are not enough 2014/01/25 09:06:52 alert 7345#0: 5000 worker_connections are not enough 2014/01/25 ...

Snapt Aria makes use of a heavily customized compilation of NGINX . While NGINX itself performs quite well out of the box, we implemented a series of optimizations and power features that are not built into the standalone NGINX distribution. If y...

Web acceleration uses various techniques such as compression and caching to speed up content transfers between a web server and client browsers, this will lead to lower latency and better overall performance of the website. Some functions of our w...

The Web Accelerator TLS setting is global to all Accelerator SSL Frontends, and can be adjusted via Accelerator > Configuration > SSL Options. SSLv3 is disabled by default.

What is PageSpeed Fast and optimized pages lead to higher visitor engagement, retention, and conversions; so experiencing a 50-70% reduction in web requests and a 2-5x decrease in the time taken to load websites doesn’t sound bad at all. And Sn...

Screencast: Advanced Snapt Aria Web Accelerator Usage In this video, we will be going through more advanced settings the Snapt Aria web accelerator offers. We will be discussing Setting up the Connection limit zone, you can specify size, type,...

We provide a full manual for the Snapt Aria Web Accelerator. Bear in mind we also provide full installation support which you can request via our Client Site .

The  Qualys SSL Labs Test is a well-known benchmark to test the security and rigidity of your HTTPS website set-up. You want to see an A or A+ rating, indicating your SSL server is set up to be secure, functional, and has no known vulnerabilities. ...

Often times when you are terminating SSL connections at the Website Accelerator or the Load Balancer, you need to know whether the request was originally initiated via an HTTP or HTTPS connection on your web server. Note: You’ll be editing adv...

Depending on your use case, you might run into a situation whereby you need to share your public IP address with another host/domain. In these instances, Server Name Indication (SNI) will be used to choose the correct backend service to respond to t...

If you are using the caching functionality within the Web Accelerator, you might find that after you deploy a new website code, that your users are being served with old content. This is due to the cached items being served directly to your users. ...

Similar to our other article about "What is the connection to HAproxy?" we have ties with Nginx. The Snapt Aria Website Accelerator is powered in part by Nginx, utilizing it to its maximum capacity. Apart from utilizing Nginx for the Web Accelerat...

What they are Locations are a way to define rules that you can use later in the Servers to send traffic to certain Upstreams (server:port pairs). For example, you can use regular expressions (regexp) to match certain parts of a URL, so that requ...

The Snapt Aria Web Accelerator requires a separate .key file and then your regular .crt file. The key is a standard RSA key file in plain text and should look like this – -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- (REQUIRED: Your Private Key: example....

HTTP/2 is a new standard for web communications, replacing HTTP/1.1. The Snapt Aria Website Accelerator can enable your sites to run on HTTP/2 without any changes on your backends! What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a replacement for how HTTP is expresse...

Explaining SSL Offloading The Snapt Aria Load Balancer and Web Accelerator both have full SSL offloading capabilities. This allows you to terminate SSL at Snapt Aria, reducing the load on your web servers by 10-20x. SSL encryption is a computat...

A website that is slow to load will lose customers and miss out on opportunities. What many people don't know is that there is a large subconscious effect as well! The Snapt Aria ADC dramatically reduces the load times on pages and optimizes your ...

The Web Accelerator is a specialized product offered by Snapt, which accelerates websites, eCommerce stores, and mobile apps. This enables organizations to reliably and quickly deliver both dynamic content and applications to remotely located users,...

Snapt Aria licenses the Website Accelerator based on active connections. These are the number of connections active on your server at any point in time. Active Connections only affect the Essential and Growth Snapt Aria Licenses as our ADC-xG an...

With the Snapt Aria Web Accelerator, we provide an HTTP and HTTPS content accelerator that allows you to proxy your web traffic with a wide range of optimization techniques. This is done by optimizing web assets and performing caching to offload fro...