Compressing Static Pages in Storage

Hi all,

The project I've been assigned to is a servlet app that generates lots
and lots of static html pages, many of which are 200+K. It is a
bioinformatics lab, and as users start to analyze entire proteomes the
hard disk usage is going through the roof. Is there any way to store
the static pages is a gzipped (or other compressed) format, and have
Apache decompress them when they are served?

Thanks,
David
keylargo.DeleteThis@operamail.com

 > The project I've been assigned to is a servlet app that generates lots
 > and lots of static html pages, many of which are 200+K. It is a
 > bioinformatics lab, and as users start to analyze entire proteomes the
 > hard disk usage is going through the roof. Is there any way to store
 > the static pages is a gzipped (or other compressed) format, and have
 > Apache decompress them when they are served?

you might even want them to load faster and deliver them gzipped to
browsers who can grok that (most can) and only gunzip when really
necessary. see

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.innerjoin.org/apache-compression/howto.html" target="_blank">http://www.innerjoin.org/apache-compression/howto.html</a>

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