Apropos Sitecore blog: Cache

AWS CloudFront - now with query string support

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 26 October 2012

Great news - or should I say old news!? Apparently Amazon CloudFront have added support for query string forwarding for custom origin distributions. This feature was announced approximately two weeks after I had written this lengthy blog post on how to mitigate this deficiency when using CloudFront and Sitecore with dynamic media URLs. With the introduction of query string forwarding you can you can drop all the rewriting and just set… Read more ►

Using CloudFront CDN for Sitecore media content

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 23 April 2012

Ever since I discovered that Amazon CloudFront supported custom origins I have been thinking about how it could be used in a Sitecore solution. If you set up a custom origin pointing to your website it will effectively work as a caching proxy (edge cache). This can take some of the load off your Sitecore server and give a general boost to page performance* which again could have a positive affect on your SEO ranking. URL rewriting In this… Read more ►

Heads up: Caching statically included renderings

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 13 August 2010

Adding Renderings and Sublayouts in Sitecore can be done in two ways. Dynamically - Renderings/Sublayouts are added via the page designer or layout details dialog. Statically - Renderings/Sublayouts are added in-line in the HTML code for a Sublayout/Layout. When adding Sublayouts/Renderings dynamically the caching attributes can be assigned to either the Sublayout/Rendering definition item (in /sitecore/layouts/...) - this sets the default… Read more ►