If your website is dishing out a lot of files, you may find your bandwidth diminishing significantly. Particularly large file can add up pretty quickly when hundreds or even thousands of people download them. Here are some ways to reduce your network load. 1. File compression – This seems basic …
July, 2010
April, 2010
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20 April
How to create a compressed tar.gz archive
Compressing files is an important skill to have. You never know when you might need to move large amounts of data, and knowing how to compress them into a smaller sized single archive can save you a lot of time and disk space. Compressed files are particularly useful for backups …
October, 2009
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23 October
Linux File Compression
Question: I downloaded a script that I want to install on my website, but the file extension is tar.gz. What is it, and what do I do with it? Answer: That file extension, .tar.gz means that the file has been doubly compressed with both TAR and GZIP. These are both …