Hey everyone, I’ve been looking into ways to reduce bandwidth usage on my Xisto account and came across gzip compression. Does Xisto support it? I know some hosts limit it. Also, I’m running a phpBB forum and I saw there’s a gzip option in the admin panel. Has anyone tried enabling it? I’d love to hear about your experiences and whether it actually helps with page load times.
Topic Summary: Hey everyone, I’ve been looking into ways to reduce bandwidth usage on my Xisto account and came across gzip compression. Does Xisto support it? I know some hosts limit it.
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gzip is a file format and a file compression program. The program uses the Deflate algorithm to compress and decompress a single file using the gzip file format. — Read more on Wikipedia
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Yeah, Xisto fully supports gzip! I’ve been using it on my phpBB3 installation for months without any issues. To enable it, just go to your phpBB admin panel: General > Server settings > Enable GZip compression > Yes. It made a noticeable difference in page load times for my visitors, and my bandwidth usage dropped significantly. Give it a try!
Thanks for the info! I was initially looking for PHP functions to implement gzip manually, but it’s great to know phpBB handles it natively. For those wanting to use gzip in custom scripts, PHP has ob_gzhandler() but you need to ensure your server has zlib enabled. On Xisto, it’s supported. Alternatively, you can enable gzip via .htaccess:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
That works too, and it’s server-wide. Check out the PHP manual on zlib and Apache mod_deflate docs for more details.