[thelist] IIS Compression

[Jeff Howden]

barry,

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> From: barry sweeney
>
> Taking this forward, I read up a little on compression
> and get the feeling that maybe the built in IIS
> compression could be improved upon.  There are several
> third party solutions and, naturally, they all claim
> the same sort of results, but they differ quite a lot
> in price.  Does anyone on the list have any real
> experience of:
>
> www.xcompress.com/home/default.asp?c=54&p=522 or
> www.httpzip.com or
> www.pipeboost.com or
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i've got familiarity with the ones above.  out of those three, xcompress
stood head and shoulders above the rest.  in fact, we use it exclusively on
several servers here at work and i use it on my box which hosts evolt.org
(among other things).

.jeff

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