We are deploying a configuration change next Wednesday, May 28 that is expected to increase VMware Communities performance. Performance is expected to increase because we will be serving more VMware Communities content via Akamai.
For logged in visitors, there will be no functional change. For guests (site visitors who are not logged in), commonly viewed community and thread pages may be up to an hour old because those pages will be served out of a cache that refreshes hourly. If you currently visit VMware Communities as a guest, you should feel free to continue visiting as a guest, unless you need to see the absolute latest threads, in which case you should log in. If you currently visit VMware Communities logged in, then you will see no change except faster page load times.
With this configuration change, performance is expected to increase in three ways:
1. Pages are expected to load faster for guests because the pages will be served by Akamai. Network round trip times are shorter to Akamai's geographically distributed nodes, especially for site visitors who are located far from VMware's origin server in California.
2. Pages are expected to load faster for guests and logged in visitors because Akamai will be caching more JavaScript than before.
3. Pages are expected to load faster for logged in visitors because VMware's origin server will not need to service requests from guests, and will therefore have more cpu available to serve pages for logged in visitors.
