Gzip Vbulletin Forums - Yay or Nay?

[Worthen]

Gzip

Some Vbulletin forum administrators swear by it ... and others swear at it.

How will it effect the server if there are other sites on the server? Will it use more CPU ... what are the pros and cons ... the benefits are obvious but what about the drawbacks ... can someone explain them in simple terms.

What say ye :)

[conqsoft]

Why do some not like it?

[Worthen]

here's a discussion on the subject at a Vbulletin forum ... I outgrew their hosting plans and can no longer host there ... but they are helpful and useful for info

http://httpme.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16778&highlight=gzip

they don't favor it ... i don't speak that tech talk well enough to get much from the discussion

perhaps you can decipher it

Thanks:)

[Zachery]

At level 1, it will use the least ammount of CPU power and compress the page the best, gzip at level 1 will have no severe server effects :)

[Erwin]

Aye. :) Makes a difference to bandwidth.

[Reeve of Shinra]

Is anyone using it above 1 on a larger site? If so, is it worth it?

[Zachery]

Tom, Erwin's site is gigantic, we should trust him :)

[Worthen]

thanks guys,

near as i can tell ... the main objection this paticular host gave was ... this module is considered experimental (not recommended) by Cpanels development team.

since it's working well for the community ... they are most likely just lagging behind ... i'll plan on gzip

thanks again:)

[Zachery]

The apache modual, maybe, we all though you were refering to vBulletins built in GZIP feature :)

[Wayne Luke]

near as i can tell ... the main objection this paticular host gave was ... this module is considered experimental (not recommended) by Cpanels development team.

As was mentioned, vBulletin doesn't need the mod_gzip built into Apache in order to GZIP its pages. It needs ZLIB compiled into PHP in order to do this. ZLIB compilation works well under Cpanel/WHM and I believe is one of the libraries that is selected by default when you compile Apache and PHP.