Hostgator and Compression

[grahamginsberg]

I have stuck with hostgator primarily for the tech support in wordpress.

Most tech have a good knowledge while I called, I think it was blue (Maybe dream didn't even have a #) and just to get the version Apache and if they offer the 'mod' was an issue. I asked their tech if I had an issue getting a custom cron or script to work could they help if they knew how and the answer was NO.

Hostgator has helped me so much and save me so much in custom advise, it's been awesome. But, I'm also now monitoring with a service downtime http://www.pingdom.com give 1 free account as I've been concerned about zero hits in the wee hours of the morning, white Britain is hard at work, we sleep, Ahhh

I tried the free CDN and it almost crashed my site. Maybe I did it wrong, but I'm hestitant now.

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Dayton, how did you get such a high score on the 'no etags'? I've tried changing the .htaccess with

# disable etags
FileETag none

But I don't know if it makes much difference

I also use this below, but really have no clue what works

<FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpg|js|png|ico|css)$">
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years"
</FilesMatch>