Sharepoint - how to enable caching without access to the server?

Question

I use WSS 3.0 in a hosting / sharing environment (read: cannot change server changes). Unfortunately, almost nothing is cached between SP and IIS, so loading pages can be very slow.

We have a bunch of custom images, JS, CSS, etc. files that are currently located only in the / img, / js and / css directories, all of which are captured every time the page loads (the server returns "Cache-Control private, max-age = 0").

Since I cannot do anything with IIS and cannot enable server-side caching in SP, do I have any other options? I read in several places that if your files are in the layout directory that they will cache, but using SP Designer, it seems that I don't have access to the layout directory / ___, unless I see something ...

Thoughts ?? Thanks!

Answer 1

Since you work in a public environment, I would work directly with ISP on this. There are many ways to cache things, and your ISP can really hinder you from doing most of them.

Ask them the following questions ...

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, css, javascript .. CDN (Akami, Amazon Web Services), js/css.

Answer 2

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