[.HTACCESS]GZIP compression your pages

[galaxyAbstractor]

Why?

Pros

• Save bandwidth
• Users gets the page faster

Cons

• CPU load

Put this in your .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on yes
  mod_gzip_item_include mime text/html
  mod_gzip_item_include mime text/plain
  mod_gzip_item_include mime text/css
  mod_gzip_item_include mime application/xml
  mod_gzip_item_include mime application/x-httpd-php
  mod_gzip_item_include mime image/x-generic
  mod_gzip_dechunk yes
  mod_gzip_min_http 1000
  mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
  mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
  mod_gzip_minimum_file_size  1000
  mod_gzip_maximum_file_size  0
  mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 1000000
  mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
</IfModule>

This enables GZIP on html, plain text, images, xml and php

Source: http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=180892

 

[LHVWB]

I haven't worked with this sort of compression much, just a question. How high would the CPU load be? Because it might get you suspended for high resource useage if its high enough.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

I haven't worked with this sort of compression much, just a question. How high would the CPU load be? Because it might get you suspended for high resource useage if its high enough.

well, since there isn't a way to see how much CPU a single user uses it is hard to decide but I have used it for my forum and it have not been any problem at all.

It is only zipping the files before sending them

 

[Sohail]

The only bad thing is that it slows down the CPU, a lot. Nice tutorial by the way.

 

[seifer89]

thanks anyway