GZIP on a Shared Server

[Colin]

Most web hosts in a shared environment do not enable GZIP even on
Apache 2. This stops most of the smaller websites from using GZIP. I
use GZIP on my dedicated server and have enabled it on a VPS while
doing some testing.

This is a very simple change (deleting 2 "#"s if I recall correctly)
to the Apache 2.X config files and a very simple addition to the
website .htaccess file.

While GZIP is a small addition to the CPU processes, I understand that
the net result is less server load, rather than more, as the
connections are completed and the code sent more quickly releasing the
CPU for other activities.

Colin G

[niklasr]

Sure, experiments and theory indicate gzip/deflate good for output
while zlib good for internal store (compress a persistence)
depends on formats

[Andrea Giammarchi]

I pre deflate/gzip every static content, and it can be easily distributed over the infrastructure, so there is no overhead at all for whatever server: http://code.google.com/p/php-client-booster/

Have a look

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[InspireMedia]

I checked with GoDaddy and they do enable gzip for requests:
http://help.godaddy.com/article/4485