I recently stumbled upon an interesting topic - compression.
Google webmaster tools simply suggested i should enable compession as due to the growing size of the pages and traffic the response times are quite bad (average 5 seconds wait per page). Google simply said "turn on gzip compression and you save like 80% bandwidth and time".
Well so easy. After searching a bit on the web i seemed to know less than before. So you can enable compression in IIS, you can write custom modules, edit internal asp config and so, probably you can even buy a gun that is loaded with gzip.
Well so the first bright idea - check in the snitz admin page - so i went to snitz admin panel and "Server Information".
There it was "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip, deflate". Well so my server seems to offer compression, or did i get it wrong?
I tried to check on my hosting, but networksolutions does not offer much. You can create ftp accounts, email accounts or view logs, but thats it. I also dont have "root access" as its a cheap shared hosting.
Is there any way i can use compression or is it only available if you have a dedicated server with root access where you fumble around with global asax?
As i understand the "Server info" page on snitz this is already enabled, so how can i use it?
you would have to check with your host and ask if it is possible to allow compression of dynamic pages (normaly off by default as can adversley affect server performance) so probably unlikely uless you have your own server.
Those forums are hosted on IIS6.0 which natively supports compression. Even if your host were to enable compression at the lowest level you would see benefits.
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Posted - 05 January 2010 : 11:57:43
