Project Roon ≡ A developer’s [mis] take? ≡ Giles Smith

This site has always been hosted on shared hosting, along with a few other blogs I maintain for friends (On The Wrong Planet and Darth McCarth to name a couple…). Even while I was freelancing I have always used shared hosting as it has always been perfect for my needs However the popularity of this [...]

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Categories: IT, Tech & Internet

By using the mod_deflate (link) module of apache you can quite easily reduce a 30k page down to 3k worth of transmitted data, and guess what it is extremely simple to enable!
To enable the module (apache2) try something like:
# cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/deflate.load .
Then add the following line to your apache.conf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain [...]

Tags: apache, apache.conf, apache2, bandwidth, compression, mod_deflate

Categories: IT, Tech & Internet