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Decrease the size of data, typically to preserve space or reduce network bandwidth required while transmitting files. It can be applied to files, folders, disks, etc.

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How do you turn off compression on a specific page?

When compression is turned on globally for the root website, is there a way to turn compression off for a specific page? (ex. download.aspx) I would like to turn it off on a few select pages where we are streaming files to the client. I'm using IIS…
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Apache2 server not recognizing text/css files for expire/compression

I'm trying to add two things: ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 30 day" and AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css but in either case it does not show up compressed or have a later expiration date. I used Firebug to check, and…
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I am trying gzip compression for my javascripts and css file but for css it is not working

I am trying gzip compression for my js and css files. but for css it is not working. also when i do page speed analysis using firefox page speed it asks to enable gzip compression on your server. it means gzip compression is not working. Here is the…
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Best way to serve .iso's on low disk space host?

A bit of story: I am hosting a few modified Linux distribution images, around 700MBs each. My server's free disk space is the main concern here, my current archive uses up roughly 16/20GBs of my disk space and I plan to add a few more in the near…
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Do any of you use lrzip on your servers?

I have been reading about this: https://github.com/epa/lrzip and it seems that lrzip gets more bang for your money. My initial tests however showed takes quite long using lrztar. Any one here have experience using this on live servers? Thanks.
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Zlib Compression and Deflate compression. how to use correctly in htaccess?

in order to speed up my website and php pages, i use compression my php pages currently fetch text, create thumbnails etc. Currently these two compression paragraphs are at the very bottom of my htaccess file. Should the both be there? Is this code…
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Zip archiving tool for auto backup of random files

I realise that I should probably be writing command scripts or something to do this but I'm just a fancy pants software developer who is helping out do some file backup so I want a fast and dirty solution. Sorry. Is there a tool for taking full size…
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How to enable IIS compression for Web Services?

How do I enable compression for the Web Services request? I've an IIS 6 server that, using the ISAPI filder from Apache, routes the incoming connection to a set of web application running on JBoss. Because the routing happens using the AJP protocol…
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phpmyadmin on my server doesn't support compression

phpmyadmin on my server doesn't support compression: You attempted to load file with unsupported compression (application/gzip). Either support for it is not implemented or disabled by your configuration. I need to import a database aaa.sql.gz How…
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Zip up a folder, but only include folders with numerical names?

I have a very messy folder which contains thousands of files and directories. I would like to create a Zip file which only contains some of the folders (and files within those folders) - specifically those folders which have number-only names (104,…
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Apache mod_deflate enable?

I'm using the follow code in .htaccess. It works nicely in localhost, however in production server i'm having troubles with gzip compression. AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/html application/x-javascript application/javascript
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BZ2 backup files don't differ in size from day to day

Recently I switched from zip to bz2 for compressing nightly database dumps. The command I'm using is tar cj. The old zip files would always differ ever so slightly in size from day to day: -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 1192139 Aug 20 22:00…
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Creating a tgz file on a remote server without using local harddrive

I have a fairly ancient Fedora server which I have inherited from another company. I only have access to the server VIA SSH. Here are some details of the server: Linux REMOVED 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 #1 Tue Feb 7 13:37:42 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 …
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Need compression utility which uses all CPUs and compresses the best

I uses RAR since it was released a decade ago perhaps. However it is good for desktop applications I just found that on server where I need to compress a lot of text files every weekend it takes ages. I looked into CPU usage and RAR takes around…
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compression: httpZip vs Anything IIS 7 has to offer

I'm trying to evaluate IIS compression tools out there, and saw httpZip. I was wondering if anyone could make a recommendation, did it help and was it substantial? Was IIS 7 even on the same level (performance or configuration, or any other…
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