this is MUCH faster...

[Martin]

is it just the proggie, or is the server upgraded?

[Chris Schreiber]

Nope same server (as far as I know)... but you're right it is faster

[VirtueTech]

God I hope the code is faster...that would be music to my ears.

[Sharg]

Its faster because all the pages are Gziped.
Which means instead of downloading 40k for page, you only download 25. Then your browser unpack it.

[MaSTaKiLLaH]

Hi,

does gzip mean more CPU load for the server ?

[Sharg]

Yes, a little more since each page must be gzipped before they are sent.
It would be interesting to hear from the developpers how much % processor power does the board eat when running with Gzip.

[MattR]

I run GZip as well and it seems to provide a big speed increase for people who are on slow connections (and who's browser supports it). Didn't see too much of a web server hit, but the Zend Cache/Optimizer dropped the loads to .24 or less pretty much 100% of the time, so there's no problem! :)

That being said, from what I have heard slower web servers (e.g. single CPU PIIs or less) have problems -- one guy with a PII200 said that his pages that were gzipped were always slower than non, simply because the web server couldn't zip them fast enough. Get a fast CPU (or more of them) and you shouldn't notice anything bad.

[Shaman]

I'm using Athlon 1100s for my web servers (load balanced) and man, there is just no time at all for it to zip up to 100K worth of HTML, I'm finding.

And yes, this board has sped up amazingly AFAICT.

[roy7]

If there is no user-specific content in a web page when a user is already logged on, maybe you could cache top thread lists, message lists, etc and expire the cache when those pages are updated with a new post perhaps. Then you only gzip it once instead of on every page view?

-Jonathan