When you gzip the content, pages will take less time to download which means Apache will be able to serve more in less time.

I kept hearing that gzipping content stress the CPU, but it's a myth based on my experience (I use mod_deflate with Apache 2.2).

I don't have the statistics of your site, nor the server specifications ... but I've managed to lower the load of big websites (uses PHP not Perl) by gzipping content.

It will take 10 minutes from your time ... And after 2 days if you think it did not make things better you can turn it off (unload the module), restart apache and that's it ... you're not modifying any part of your code.

You don't have to recompile apache in order for it to work.y

In reply to Re^2: Enhancing Speed by ahmad
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