Saving bandwidth using mod_deflate

Posted at August 22, 2008

Deploy right technology will help you saving bandwidth and hosting fee for additional bandwidth :-)

One solution from apache module is :

mod_deflate

example of vhost directive in practice :

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.hostingformula.info
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog
<Directory /var/www/blog>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml text/plain text/javascript application/x-javascript application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/postscript
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

yes, all type of files listed in DEFLATE lines will get compressed :-)

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