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Hmmm.... fun, but generally irrelevent :)

Eg, we give clients 50Mb, and have yet to see one get anywhere near that on text only.

Media tends to be the space hogger, and since jpegs etc are already compressed, there's not much you can do about it once the images are online.

I think the best way to compress sites is to whack all gifs through an optimiser, and save jpegs at an acceptable compression rate.

Doing that will save you more space.

But a fun project, I'm sure :)

.02

cLive ;-)

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Re: Re: Lower hosting costs with compression
by tstock (Curate) on Oct 31, 2001 at 13:16 UTC
    fun, but generally irrelevent

    I disagree, In my case, serving gz encoded HTML saved me about $100 a month. For smaller or less active sites it could be somewhat irrelevant as far as costs go but still, the user gets the HTML page faster, which is not bad, and the HTTPD process finishes faster, which is good for the server.

    we give clients 50Mb ...

    That would be enought for about 10 of my apache logfiles (compressed).

    Tiago
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