i actually tested this thing on one of my production servers. here's my conclusion:
1. be warned this is a still in beta!
2. it's very easy add it to apache since they offer: packages for CentOS/Fedora (32-bit and 64-bit) and Debian/Ubuntu (32-bit and 64-bit)
3. i found that even thought i downloaded the 64bit rpm, the mod got installed to /lib not /lib64, so had to fix some path configuartion.
4. subject server is not a big one, just 2GB ram on Rackspace cloud, but the second i turned this on, my server performance dropped so much the SSH console responded to commands with a 2-5 sec delay.
4. it broke all my sites (on several frameworks) since the get requests to css/js files changed.
5. so i turned it OFF, and instead used the pagespeed Firefox plugin to check for advice, ended up enabling just gz compression (level 7) on some content like html, js, css and this really improved the performance.
6. if i'll combine all my js/css, think it will have almost same effect mod_pagespeed aims to, but without killing the server, guess it's more suited for high performance (?)
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 18.6 ms ] thread1. be warned this is a still in beta!
2. it's very easy add it to apache since they offer: packages for CentOS/Fedora (32-bit and 64-bit) and Debian/Ubuntu (32-bit and 64-bit)
3. i found that even thought i downloaded the 64bit rpm, the mod got installed to /lib not /lib64, so had to fix some path configuartion.
4. subject server is not a big one, just 2GB ram on Rackspace cloud, but the second i turned this on, my server performance dropped so much the SSH console responded to commands with a 2-5 sec delay.
4. it broke all my sites (on several frameworks) since the get requests to css/js files changed.
5. so i turned it OFF, and instead used the pagespeed Firefox plugin to check for advice, ended up enabling just gz compression (level 7) on some content like html, js, css and this really improved the performance.
6. if i'll combine all my js/css, think it will have almost same effect mod_pagespeed aims to, but without killing the server, guess it's more suited for high performance (?)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865249