Le Lundi 22 Février 2010 14:11:08, Amos Jeffries a écrit : > 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)
