Some days ago while I was on a business trip, and trying to work in the Hotel, the second day the Internet connection was really slow, (maybe some other guest was downloading a lot of information), while trying to look for some information on the web, it took lots of seconds to even get the IP of the pages I was trying to visit.

There are many people out there complaining about the Firefox RAM Memory Bug. Lets get it straight. It’s not a bug. It’s part of the cache feature. This ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment.

Google has recently released their very own DNS resolver with main goals of making web browsing faster and safer... replacing your ISP's slow DNS server with a third party DNS resolution service will help speed up your Internet connection. So if you are already using OpenDNS right now and are pleased with it, why not try Google Public DNS.

This tutorial explains how you can configure Apache2 to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files) to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your visitors' browsers.

Links is powerful text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs in linux terminal providing a faster access to internet especially on slow connection. Its completely text based, so that you cant use it as a complete replacement for usual browsers since terminal can not display images. Also since text based it can be a used for faster acces of internet when you are using mobile internet.

The mail server can increase speed by placing a caching-nameserver on the mail server itself. This provides recursive lookups and a cache for the mail server to work with. The caching-nameserver does not require much resources and is easy to install.

Some distributions run a caching nameserver in the background out of the box while some do not. To clear the cache if you have such a daemon running, simply restart the nscd service in ubuntu.

A Virtual Private Server can work well to set up your own anonymous internet browsing proxy. A VPS can cost as little as $8 a month, which is roughly the same a private proxy or VPN provider would charge you.

Ziproxy is Web proxy server, but rather than cache content the way Web proxies like Squid do, it's designed to compress the content that it fetches from the Web before forwarding it to the Web client.