After 4.5 years of development, Google announced on May 5 that it will be discontinuing PageSpeed -- an optimizing proxy that aimed at improving website performance.
Google has alerted users of its PageSpeed Service for making websites zippier that it will be killing off the tools as of Aug. 3. The company, which this week introduced a new offering called Cloud Bigtable for storing large amounts of data online, apparently has bigger things to worry about these days.
If you are using PageSpeed Service, you must change your DNS before 3rd August 2015 or your site(s) will become completely unavailable on that date, Google stated in their announcement.
Google recommended several alternatives including mod_pagespeed -- an Apache module.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @10:51PM
Google recommended several alternatives including mod_pagespeed -- an Apache module. One might think that they could have open-sourced their own product PageSpeed.
Holy fucking shit, did any of the editors even read the goddamned articles? mod_pagespeed is an Apache and NGINX module that IS Google's open-sourced product. You can download it here [google.com], or skip straight to the github [github.com].
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday May 11 2015, @11:19PM
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:28AM
Red blooded red necked Mericans use Yahoo!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday May 12 2015, @02:03AM
I thought Yahoo was for 12 year-old Koreans?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @02:14AM
You must be thinking of Naver.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @04:50AM
As anyone watching their IP connections can attest to, we are all being pushed into the Cloud.
Many major sites use some kind of CDN, (Content Distribution System) in lieu of your proxy, which of course comes from?...
you guessed it...the CLOUD!
For example, /. uses e872.g.akamaiedge.net
And of course if you block it, well, you drop from the Cloud into limbo while you wait for things to timeout. Yet another good reason not to go there.
Fastly.net, CloudFront.net and MarkMonitor are slowly making their way into every corner.
FireFox has been calling home with its selfhealing crap.
Mostly to do with their tile and phishing services. Which, btw, still calls home even after disabling in the latest version.
Ya, so Google is just seeing the writing on the wall and will now try to assimilate us the same way.
How many Google connections do you see when surfing the web?