mod_deflate hijinks

Ok. I added mod_deflate, and it looks like I am getting around 40-60% reduction in general traffic due to the gzip compressed content being delivered to clients that support it.

http://cactuswax.net/ is gzipped

Original Size: 21 K
Gzipped Size: 6 K
Data Savings: 71.43%

The above "Data Savings" information was acquired from here:

http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/

Of course, not all pages compress this much. Still, that is a nice savings for the large front page of my blog. YaY!

So far, I have found a few snafu's as far as compressed content. I had to add dia diagrams to my mime-types, and the list of no-gzip, as well as .iso files and the regular slew of already compressed data (tar.gz, zip, etc).

Long story short, let me know if any files download funky, render funky, or generally have any type of unusual funk attached to them.

Just make sure you stay out of my laundry basket, for your own sake.

EDIT: My setup information has been placed in my wiki.

EDIT: The server has eAccelerator running on it now too. php scripts should be noticably faster on subsequent executions.

EDIT2: For all my Archlinux readers, mod_deflate was just as easy to set up. I just snaked the mod_deflate.so from a Fedora box (with apache2 on it), and just slapped it in there. It worked!