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

2010/2/22 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> 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
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Received on Mon Feb 22 2010 - 20:31:54 MST