IIS Compression in IIS6.0
Hold on to your hats folks. If you don't have compression installed on your web server, either IIS Compression or a 3rd party, and you have IIS6.0 and pay for bandwidth you're missing out on something good. In the day of IIS5 and earlier the compression built into IIS had various issues and was really not worth implementing. To enable compression you would need to go with a 3rd party solution like www.port80software.com or www.xcompress.com. This has all changed in IIS6! At www.orcsweb.com we've been running IIS6.0 compression on some servers for a number of month with few issues, just huge performance and bandwidth benefits. Expect upwards of 4 times the compression which directly translates to bandwidth savings. This means faster loading of pages for the end user also. The only time we had to disable it was for a custom audio application for one of our clients that didn't work with compression. I'll mention at the end of this how to disable compression for an ...