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To: WaterBoard
One problem I noticed is that this website does not take advantage of compression using Gzip or Deflate which would speed up access

It depends on what you value more - the bandwidth or the CPU load. All pages are dynamic. Even the main forum page updates counters once someone posts a comment. You would have to compress very frequently, and that is a bottleneck because you have to do that on your own CPU. On the other hand, bandwidth is scalable, and once it's out of your link (that you pay for) you don't care how it gets routed to any specific client.

1,299 posted on 01/11/2011 7:04:13 PM PST by Greysard
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To: Greysard

You realize that you can Gzip static files and they don’t need to be gzipped every time they are served, right?


1,375 posted on 01/12/2011 4:58:27 AM PST by WaterBoard
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