Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Mod Deflate - Compress Your Web Pages and Save Bandwidth

Mod Deflate - Compress Your Web Pages and Save Bandwidth: "When you get a good number of visitors on your website, you can end up with a rather large Internet bandwidth bill from your web hosting company. This is usually a good problem to have as it means your website is generating traffic. However, there are some steps you can take to try to optimize your website so that it consumes less bandwidth per user. There are a number of ways to do this. Let's look at one such solution for Apache. We'll learn how to setup and use the Apache module mod_deflate. This module adds an output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed. A great side effect of the implementation of this module is that it also speeds up your website."