Apache?? mod_gzip

[thorin]

As a partial solution to your bandwidth/performance cap.

You guys run Apache as your web server right? Have you considered implementing mod_gzip?

http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/

If you don't use Apache perhaps you should invesetigate similar options for whatever Web Server you do use.

"mod_gzip uses the well established and publicly available IETF ( Internet Engineering Task Force ) Content-Encoding standards in conjunction with publicy available GZIP compression libraries such as ZLIB ( Copyright © 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler ) to deliver dynamically compressed content 'on the fly' to any browser or user-agent that is capable of receiving it. It is a software based solution that runs perfectly in conjunction with any Apache Web Server on both UNIX and Win32 platforms."

Thorin

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Color me uninformed, but I was under the impression that this was already in use.

 

[thorin]

Perhaps it is. I wasn't sure so I thought I'd make the suggestion anyway.

Thorin

 

[Jason Clark]

Already done a long time ago, we dont use mod_gzip though. Pipeboost.

Thanks.

 

[ViRGE]

This is just a Prop-Head question, but what's different about Pipeboost than Mod_gzip?

 

[thorin]

Hey Zuni,
Thanks for the answer.

ViRGE,
mod_gzip is for Apache. PipeBoost is for IIS (in support of the evil empire and it's worms 😛 ).

Thorin

 

[Jason Clark]

Problem with modgzip is there is no stable version for apache 2, and apache 1 well is a POS on windows 🙂.