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OK... I have a fairly large site 18,000 register members 200,000 posts ( most were purged while board was under old mgt) and it is common to have about 80 members/visitors on the boards.
I was going to use Zlib compression to cut my bandwidth, but I noticed on several threads that it increases server overhead... so I left it off.
Last night I turned Zlib compression on just for kicks, and today the boards seems to be MUCH faster in load times. I asked about four mods and they agree that the speed is up and I running with about 60 total on-line.
Any input on this? I thought Zlib was only reducing bandwidth... or is it faster becasue there is less transfer, therefore quicker (relative to the speed of the internet connection).
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That 70's Guy
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The data sent from the server to the browser is compressed and so the transfer is quicker. There is an increase in CPU usage that goes with using Zlib compression but everyone I know that's using it find it's worth the trade off. 
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The shared server that I'm on is still 98% idle with Zlib compression enabled. Like JustDave said: The site will be faster cause less data is transfered between client and server. My web site is actually usable over a 14.4 Kbs connection
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Kahuna
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Mine is useable with a 512/256kbps ADSL with 50:1 contention ratio, hence providing 5.12Kbps for my users. Zlip made a difference. We manage circa 70 posts a day....  Warm regards Nikos
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How come when I try to enable it it says it's unavaible?
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That 70's Guy
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That 70's Guy
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Perhaps the library isn't loaded? Your on a dedicated server so you may have to enable it from the php.ini file.
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Yeah, i'm on my own server. How do I go about doing that?
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That 70's Guy
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Your on a windows box I believe so you need to edit your php.ini file and uncomment this line: ;extension=php_zlib.dll That *should* do the trick.
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That caused some strange errors. And we got a popup on the server saying "Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\php\php4.2.3-Win32/php_zlib.dll' - The specified module could not be found"
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That 70's Guy
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Look over the documentation for setting up php on a windows machine and see what is needed to load the extentions. Perhaps the path to the extentions is wrong?
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Kahuna
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It's most probably what you said Dave.
Also you can check if the actual file is located under the path your error message dictates.
Warm regards
Nikos
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gotit. wow 6.2 very slick.
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