Binary Evolution Wednesday released VelociGen 2.0,
an application server designed to beef up Web server performance. The
release also includes extensions for parsing and manipulating XML
documents.
VelociGen 2.0 attempts to minimize slow Web site performance that is
often the result of a Web server’s inability to respond quickly because of a
bottleneck of CGIs accessing information from the database. The application
enables the Web server to respond at speeds 25-times faster than CGI
scripts, thus eliminating the bottleneck that can often result in thousands
of dollars in lost revenue potential for each minute of downtime and
customers that leave the site.
VelociGen 2.0’s increased speed is obtained by maintaining persistent
Perl and Tcl processing engines, pooling database connections, and
byte-compiling and caching scripts. As a Web site’s traffic increases,
VelociGen 2.0’s scaleable, load-balancing architecture enables easy
expansion of capacity to meet the demand.
Other new features in VelociGen 2.0 include:
- Improved CGI Compatibility: Developers can instantly speed up
existing CGI scripts without changing them - Improved Internet Service Provider (ISP) Support: For ISPs that
offer virtual hosting, VelociGen 2.0 can prevent one user’s poorly written
script from affecting the performance of others; can isolate CGI scripts
written by a single user from those on the shared Web server - Perl Module Documentation: Built with the most current version of
Perl, VelociGen 2.0 provides an HTML interface to Perl documentation in all
documentation and module files - Scalability: Performance can be further improved by running
VelociGen 2.0 on a cluster of Unix machines; Perl processing for a single
Web server can be handled by multiple VelociGen 2.0 servers - Session Management Server: Session management daemon enables Web
applications to maintain user session information at high speed without
separate database software
VelociGen-based applications can be developed once on a single platform,
then deployed onto nearly any platform, operating system and database
VelociGen 2.0 can be installed on Unix and Microsoft NT servers, and
interacts with database engines via industry-standard protocols, such as
ODBC and SQL. VelociGen 2.0 runs on Sun-Netscape iPlanet Web Server,
Netscape Fasttrack/Enterprise Server, Apache, Microsoft IIS/PWS, O’Reilly
WebSite Pro, and other ISAPI compatible Web servers. Platforms supported are
Windows NT Intel, Solaris SPARC, SGI IRIX, HP-UX, AIX and Linux Intel.
VelociGen 2.0 can be purchased from
Binary Evolution’s Web site. A 60-day evaluation copy is also available.
