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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"
However, time isn't tending towards infinity very quickly and presently there are still good reasons to save bandwidth.
Does this formula hold when you compare the price of bandwidth with the price of computational power ??
I can get all the bandwidth I want (and a bit more) but I have to pay for it.
All the CPU's I use are overpowered, but I already have paid for the full capacity. This is not the case for my bandwidth, because I have to pay for every bit of data my webserver sends to the internet.