i was just browsing my awstats and noticed that in march i had 13mil 301 redirects (4.47 GB) and already almost 10mil (3.14 GB) in april.
i've tracked our other main 301 entries in .htaccess and they only add up to maybe 10k/day. so that leaves about
i know parallel uses 301 redirects, and based upon my other tracking, i'm starting to think that the majority of those redirects are from parallel redirecting for images, css, etc on every page load.

does that amount of 301 redirects have server load implications?
and at what point is parallel causing more server load with 301's than it is helping with download speed?

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mikeytown2’s picture

mikeytown2 commented
Category: support » bug

301's are bad. If this is true then its a bug with the htaccess rules. Are you using these?
http://drupal.org/node/597178#comment-2735418

chadd’s picture

chadd commented

no i'm not.
i'm using (from http://drupal.org/node/579624#comment-2120792):

#paralell stuff
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !(.*image.*)
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !(.*css.*)
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !(.*javascript.*)
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^styles.mysite\.com$ [NC,OR]
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^scripts.mysite\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

i'll use the htaccess rules from that other thread and see how things go.

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wim leers
Location Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)