Very Computer

But now I have a feeling that the server is getting slower with all
this authentication but I have no data on this issue. Does anyone have
info on this? I'm using only one user/password but will I get a
performance increase by discarding this whole scheme?

I can live with a small performance hit but with tens of thousands of
files being requested every day I want to know how much of a hit I'm
suffering.

Thanks for any info on the matter.

Cryptonium

Why not just change the directory or file names, instead of messing
with authentication.

The actual performance hit to the apache server is probably minimal,
but you are also preventing caching by using authentication, which
could result in a substantial perceived performance hit versus just
changing the directory name every few days.

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Joshua Slive

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Quote:

> But now I have a feeling that the server is getting slower with all
> this authentication but I have no data on this issue.

However, from (some) users point of view, it's going to be much slower,
because password-protecting a page will inhibit (public) cacheing.

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Nick Kew

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