Lens, compression

[Brujah]

Lensman, get some mod_gzip or ob_gzhandler turned on this forum to make it faster (dialup) and smaller (save bandwidth).

http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php?ur...ckyourself.net

[bhutocracy]

brujah, get some cable or dsl to make it faster (webmasters should have decent connections) and do yourself a favour (you'll never go back)

[bhutocracy]

tho saving bandwidth can never be a bad thing.....

[X37375787]

yeah, but you're right - that might help to speed it up.

[JackFoley]

Will mod_gzip work on dynamically-generated pages like this forum? It helps speed up HTML pages, but I think it's the requests to the MySQL database that is making the board slow...

[onlyreal]

Originally posted by Brujah
Lensman, get some mod_gzip or ob_gzhandler turned on this forum to make it faster (dialup) and smaller (save bandwidth).

http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php?ur...ckyourself.net

GOOD MORNING
you smart ass

modg_zip only zips html pages for php you need to install zend optimizer

[Brujah]

well, we can add "onlyreal" to the clueless list.

[Brujah]

Jack, yes. Mod_Gzip is an apache module.
Before apache returns the output to the user, its compressed.

The standard config is to include html, php, cgi, pl, etc.. and exclude images, videos

A dialup user might only need to download 20k instead of 100k, and of course thats 90k less bandwidth for that user, that instance.

Mod_Gzip is easy to install.

[NetRodent]

Does anyone have any firsthand experience how mod_gzip (or any other negotiated content) is affects cached content?

[Freako]

How about this?

http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php?ur...www.leknor.com

They recommend installing mod_gzip...... but dont even have it themself

Oh well, tell me more about it I'm interested ;)

[Brujah]

Its only 304 bytes if you look.
I think one of the config options is only if the filesize is at least a certain size first. no sense in compressing 304 bytes.

You'll see his front page actually is gzipped
http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php?ur...F%2Fleknor.com

Here's some info on installing it.
http://i4net.tv/marticle/get.php?act...e&articleid=21

and more about where to get it, how it works, etc.
http://www.ehyperspace.com/apache/mod_gzip/

[RK]

Originally posted by Brujah
A dialup user might only need to download 20k instead of 100k, and of course thats 90k less bandwidth for that user, that instance.

might is the key word.
Looks like 80 kb difference, not 90 ;)

[willow]

Most dialup modems already use compression if they can negotiate it with the ISP host. Compressing small amounts of data like these html pages will not make much difference and the server will have to do the work not your modem.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/compressv44vsv42bis/