In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

Well, it depends on whether you really to need to save that much space. gzip is more efficient than compress in terms of end compression size, but in doing so is usually more processor intensive. you ...

If you're looking to gain a bit more performance out of your NGINX web server, Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of gzip compression. NGINX is an outstanding, open source web server. It’s easy ...

Reducing costs is a key consideration for every IT budget. One of the items looked at most closely is the cost of a company's bandwidth. Using content compression on a Web site is one way to reduce ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

Performance tuning your web server is super important. You can gain a significant speed boost while reducing server load by using caching and other techniques. From a client perspective, reducing ...

Today, PLDA GROUP and CAST demonstrated the results of a tight collaboration to make FPGA-accelerated GZIP compression accessible to developers of data center applications. This collaboration ...