i know its stupid , but what it is ? and how does it affects transfer ?

btw : i searched in the forum and found 89 pages with "mod_gzip" so i couldnt find there .

thank you

http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/

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Originally posted by HostingFreak
i know its stupid , but what it is ? and how does it affects transfer ?

btw : i searched in the forum and found 89 pages with "mod_gzip" so i couldnt find there .

thank you mod_gzip is an on-the-fly compression of html pages. It can typically save you about 75% in transfer. It WILL NOT save anything in transfer of images since the common image formats (gif, jpg, png) are already highly compressed.

To be honest, I'm not sure if it'll save anything on BMP files. But then again, we're all smart enough not to use BMP files on web pages, right? ;)

When I had mod_gzip enabled on my server, the response was much snappier. My pages are generated by PHP scripts, and are quite large. I definitely noticed a difference.

Originally posted by HostingFreak
i know its stupid , but what it is ? and how does it affects transfer ?

btw : i searched in the forum and found 89 pages with "mod_gzip" so i couldnt find there .

thank you Umm, forgot to mention in my last post... No, this is not a stupid question. I too ran across this when I was setting up my dedicated server, and had no idea what this was. I researched it some, realized it would be worth trying, and I'm now glad that I did.

thank you , you really halped me.