[thelist] Architecture/SEO question

raditha dissanayake jabber at raditha.com
Tue Oct 5 10:59:37 CDT 2004


Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>
>At my current job, our architecture involves WebLogic 7 (soon to be 8) serving up dynamic JSP
>content, with IIS proxy in front. IIS handles all static content (css, pictures, the like). I'm
>told that IIS is umpteen times better performance wise at handling the static content, when I
>asked why we didn't just serve everything up with WebLogic. 
>  
>
As I mentioned in the other thread that argument may have been valid 
years ago, for sites that was heavy on images, but as you mention below 
yours is not. So you are probably slowing down your site by doing this.
However the speed difference will not be noticable except under extreme 
conditions (ie when you are at the limits of your server's 
capabilities). Otherwise the difference between using IIS/apache + 
weblogic vs weblogic alone would be just a few hundred miliseconds per page.

>Understand that the sites we are building now are very light on images. Yet they assure me to move
>that to WebLogic would give us a serious hit in performance. 
>
>Apparently this also has something to do with clustering and some other stuff which I didn't
>understand :D
>  
>
As i understand it clustering with a servlet container is far easier 
than doing the same with IIS or apache.

>Now, the question. This is standard operating procedure? To have a web server serve up static
>content and an app server serve up dynamic content, correct?
>  
>
not as I understand it.

>Our problem with this is search engine optimization. This current architecture gives us homepage
>urls like:
>
>www.site.com/site/homepage.jsp
>
>This is generally a 302 or 301 redirection. For SEO you want
>
>www.site.com
>
>period - nothing else. In particular the redirection hurts your rankings - even if it is a
>permanent 301. I'm just wondering how others have handled this and what means they have gotten
>themselves a static home page (if they have at all).
>  
>

I don't see why you need to redirect at all if you carefully configure 
your server configuration file you can map the servlets or jsps servlets 
to the exact pathnames that you want it to appear as.


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