The LoadMaster allows you to cache static content and compress files sent from the LoadMaster.

The LoadMaster advanced caching engine saves valuable Real Server processing power and bandwidth, which can be dedicated to performing critical core business application logic. Significant server performance gains can be achieved when implementing caching. Chatty protocols, such as HTTP, require frequent creating and closing of connections for fetching of static resources, creating unnecessary resource utilization on Real Server(s) and the network.

The LoadMaster data compression feature reduces the amount of data to be transferred for HTTP objects by utilizing gzip compression which is available in all modern web browsers. Leveraging Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression and HTTP/1.1 GNU zip (gzip) content encoding reduces bandwidth utilization for high compression files such as text files (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

This document provides details about the caching and compression functionality provided by the LoadMaster.