2010/2/22 Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. Can this be done with Apache? So let Apache do the GZIP and serve Squid this gzipped file? Without the eCAP module? > 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. Any suggestions how to test this reliably? Thank you! Gerrit > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE24 > Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.16
