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Webaccelerator with mod_gzip ?
Christian Bjerre writes: "Currently I'm using Squid as an webaccelerator to sit infront of apache and serve static files (.html .js .gif .png .jpg). Squid also serves my dynamic content which is .php files. My goal is to let Squid or another opensource program gzip the html, since I have Squid installed on another machine, where cputime is not an issue. I've been reading page up&down and Squid dosen't seem to support gzip encoding in Webaccelerator mode. I haven't tried feeding it gzipped html, which could be a solution, if there was a way of having Squid handle all content as binary. What do you guys & girls do to minimize bandwidth usage? // chris"
Yeah, whatever but right now network bandwidth is fscking expensive. OTOH I'm not sure that an appreciable quantity of the bandwidth from a website is actually text.
FWIW these guys use php's ob_gzhander function and appear to get quite good results.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
Apache+mod_proxy+mod_cache can also be an httpd accelerator (aka reverse proxy) and I've had great success with it. My original configuration used Squid but several limitations with Squid forced me to investigate the alternatives. I finally settled on Apache and I've been very happy with it. Apache also has better support for 301/302 rewriting (the PassProxyReverse directive) than Squid, and this was a deciding factor for me in dumping Squid and going with Apache.