mod_gzip support in newsletter

[Planet-Ed]

I'm a little new to the forum arena and the newsletter seemed to comfuse me a little ...

It stated that:
We made the decision to remove mod_gzip support from our servers.
and them went onto say:
It is recommended that gzip be enabled on your forums and set for a compression level of 1.

Are these 2 different forms of gzip and the vBulletin gzip can run without mod_gzip on the server? I just want to make sure my setting are optimal for the server ...

[Gnomercy]

Yes, gzip is available through vBulletin and can run without mod_gzip on the server.

[Planet-Ed]

Thanks for the info .. I'll go with their recommendations then ..

[Rodzilla]

Hm...I've been thinking about this, and even though there's no way to get the reductions in bandwidth usage shown through Cpanel, it'd still be useful to have mod_gzip installed. While the bandwidth usage would appear the same to the customer, the end user of the websites would be downloading considerably less information. This shows a lot, especially on 56k.

[Nedani]

True, Rodzilla.

You can use ZLib if you are generating your pages with PHP (CMS, forums, etc.) . The bad part is that you have to do some coding for that.

Regards,
Daniel

[Rodzilla]

Yea...I need to look into zlib. Given my current state of free time I'll probably end up ripping out the guts of vB's manual zipping and shoving it down my CMS and file system's throats ;)