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True, your RSS feeds are bringing your bandwidth cost up like never before. More readers subscribe each day to your feeds, making it almost impossible to continue without implementing a system that blocks a reader to from getting the feed more than twice a day! It's both frustrating for you, and your readers.
Wait, we have the solution! With RSScache, it doesn't matter if the reader checks your feed every 30 minutes (or even every 5 mins!). Since our caching system only sends what the reader has never seen before, you can be sure you start cutting down your bandwidth usage the minute you install our system.
But how can you keep control over your feeds while cutting down the bandwidth costs? Very simple: install our technology right on your own server!
Since we developed RSScache using the .Net Framework, you can easily install it on any Windows IIS servers! We even support a wide range of database providers, like Microsoft Access for the small sites and Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 for sites with high traffic. You can even split the load over some servers, making our system highly scalable on heavy load.
Why use RSScache on your server?
Save server bandwith that is wasted (save at least 90% of your feed's bandwidth); Cache your feeds for fast response time, especially if your RSS is dynamically generated and causes slowdowns on your server; Get statistic of your feed usage by enabling logs; Protect your server from bad-behaving RSS readers that pull your feeds way too often, even those at 1 min interval; If you are in an enterprise, use RSScache as a proxy to get external feeds so that all your employees parse their feeds using your server; Make sure your readers refresh your feed faster, since only the news they haven't seen are sent; Improve getting RSS from mobile devices, like cellulars and PDA, saving them monthly bandwidth costs; RSScache supports all feed standards: RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, RDF and Atom; RSScache core system is contained in a Web service, allowing you to easily interact from your Web site and allowing hosting servers to share the functionalities across all client sites; RSScache is easy to install on IIS on Windows 2003, Windows 2000 or Windows XP; Use RSScache with your choice of database provider from the following: SQL 2005, SQL 2000, Access 2000; You can be sure our product work great, we are using it since october 2004 on our online service, RSScache.com; We continually improve our product so that you can get the most out of it.
How installation works?
The RSScache system is in three parts:
Web Page : it's the web page that gets the feed URL to cache. It's the page your readers access; Web Service : implements all logics of RSScache and accesses the underlying database through a plugin system allowing you to switch from one database provider to another; Database : all requests are stored in databases for efficient response time. We currently support Microsoft Access 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
To correctly answer your needs, you can choose how each part is installed on your server. Select your solution based on your current traffic.
Low traffic:
If you have low traffic on your feeds, you can install everything on your current Web server, and use the Microsoft Access database. Although our tests showed that you can have up to 30 simultaneous connections to your feeds per seconds, we recommend this for enterprises that can't afford buying a Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 server. Installation is straight forward: you install the Web Page, the Web Service and the Microsoft Access database on your server, and you're ready to start using RSScache!
High traffic:
If you have hundreds of simultaneous connections to your feeds per seconds, using a Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 database is probably your best choice. Installing RSScache usually consist of installing the Web Page on your Web server, installing the Web Service on either your Web server or your database server and setting up the RSScache database in SQL Server. Choosing to install the Web Service on either the Web server, the database server or even on a third server is a question of scalability. For the extremely heavy load, you can split the work of RSScache system on three servers!
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Download RSScache (free!)
As of July 20th, 2006, we are now offering RSScache free of charge. We want to get as many feedbacks as possible about our product. So you can get it today and install it on your server!
The installation package contains everything you need to install RSScache on your Windows XP, 2000 or 2003 Server. You can also configure it to either use Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL 2000/2005 database.
To download RSScache, go to the download page. Take note that you need an account on our site to access the download page. If you don't have one, simply create an account now.
Once you have tried RSScache, please contact us with your feedback regarding our product. Thank you.
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