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2008-09-15
Speed up your site with some htaccess mojo
Over at Cats Who Code they have a great about speeding up your Website using Apache’s mod_deflate and header expires. It’s a guest post by Hayes Potter – a 13 year old web developer!
Whilst I have some reservations about the extra CPU load on deflating files vs just waiting for the page to load, it’s defiantly a good read and has some smart tips.
Head on over to Cats Who Code for the full article.
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Jamie Le Souef Says
Great tip! Thanks AskApache!
I’ll defiantly be watching your site for more Apache tips :)
Stan B Says
Would this code go above or below my www. to non www. redirect code in the .htaccess file?
Cheers,
Stan
Jamie Le Souef Says
That’s a good question Stan. I would say after, but I couldn’t tell you why – it just seems logical.
Courtney Says
I had slow server problems sometime back and had to reboot apache everytime because of the extra load. Sold that one. Could nt find the article on that site, I am still looking for ways to reduce the server loads.
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AskApache Says
One way around this Jamie is to gzip your files manually/programmatically whenever you make an update… see @http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/speed-up-sites-with-htaccess-caching.html Then you just use mod_rewrite or rely on apaches mod_negotiation to serve the proper file. Thats what I do on my site, you can check out the htaccess tutorial for examples of this.
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