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Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching

Posted by Hemos on from the faster-faster-faster dept.

produke writes "Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"

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  1. Re:So using cache control headers is "news", huh? by mrsbrisby · · Score: 3, Insightful
    .htaccess files, by their very nature, cause performance degradation on your website, and so should be avoided whenever possible.
    NO! .htaccess files by their implementation cause performance degradation. The Apache group could have made that degradation zero, but thought that a Novell Netware port was more important.

    Seriously, Linux's F_NOTIFY has been around since 2.4 and other operating systems have similar.