Dedicated Servers - Speeding Up Your Server and Saving Bandwidth
It’s not impossible to speed up your servers’ http output by 400% and cut you bandwidth by 50%. One of ways is the use of HTTP Website Compression Software on your server. If you are running a Linux or Windows server with Apache™ machine, you can download and use Mod_Gzip™ for free. For other Windows™ servers, there are more expensive solutions like PipeBoost™ which runs about $1500 per server. This article will be focusing on Linux/ Apache™.
Since Mod_Gzip is simply a standard Apache Web Server module which acts as an Internet Content Accelerator, it runs on any OS platform supported by the Apache Web Server itself, including Win 9x,NT,2000, Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX, etc. All modern browsers released since early 1999 are already capable of receiving compressed Internet content. In almost all low-speed test cases involving 28.8k dial-up connections, mod_gzip was able to turn the 28.8k connection into a virtual ISDN line with a content delivery rate 4 or 5 times higher than normal.
If you are familiar with Linux, this should be pretty straight forward. If not, get someone to help you. Make sure you save a backup copy of your http.conf file with a name like http.conf.modgzip. If you run into problems, just change the first line of the code you just added [ mod_gzip_on yes ] to [ mod_gzip_on no ] or copy your old saved http.conf.modgzip file back to http.conf.
Be sure to go to the Getting help and more information sites listed below before installing. It should be no problem to install the files from cPanel.net and the one from the Mod_Gzip site on cPanel™ servers. Many others have run into various problems so use caution, and backup.
Getting the files you need: Cpanel™ http://layer1.cpanel.net/ and Download mod_gzip 1.3.19.1a - Pre-compiled Linux mod_gzip.so module (85k)
Standard Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip
Install for Cpanel™ upload to server
Run: make install and add BELOW to your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
mod_gzip_static_suffix .gz
AddEncoding gzip .gz
mod_gzip_update_static No
mod_gzip_command_version '/mod_gzip_status'
mod_gzip_temp_dir /home/modgziptmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 500
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 500000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000
mod_gzip_min_http 1000
mod_gzip_handle_methods GET POST
mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]"
mod_gzip_item_include file .html$
mod_gzip_item_include file .shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include file .htm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .shtm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .php$
mod_gzip_item_include file .phtml$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .css$
mod_gzip_item_include file .pl$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/html$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/plain$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^httpd/unix-directory$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_add_header_count Yes
mod_gzip_send_vary Yes
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