Re: [squid-users] GZIP and Squid on a high performance website?

Le Lundi 22 F�vrier 2010 14:11:08, Amos Jeffries a �crit :
> Gerrit Berkouwer wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > we want to use Squid-3.1 with ecap support to enable the external gzip
> > module on our high performance/high availability website.
> > We want to use GZIP because we think this will improve performance for
> > our end-users, following the 'high-performance website' rules of Steve
> > Souders of Google, gzipping content being one of those rules.
> >
> > Are there any users on this list that use GZIP with Squid for this
> > reason? If so, how do you manage this? With the Squid-ecap-gzip module
> > at http://code.google.com/p/squid-ecap-gzip/?
> >
> > Any thoughts on using GZIP and Squid for high performance high
> > availability websites? is GZIP worthwhile with todays broadband
> > connections of clients?
>
> I believe the benefits of compression come when pre-zipping content on
> the web server. As in: two static versions of every file stored.
>
> There seem to be several people using the gzip eCAP module. One has
> reported that it slows traffic down in their high-speed setup. As can
> kind of be expected when adding extra processing mid-transit.
> So test well before deploying.
>
> Amos
the best way of getting benefits of gzip is when you are inverse-proxy mode, or
you are serving IDSN clients (such as ISPes)
Received on Mon Feb 22 2010 - 21:06:47 MST