Shoutbox

U should considder using gzip to speed up the transfer of pages and to save bandwidth.

You can save over 80%

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/ is not gzipped

Page Size: 27 K
Size if Gzipped: 4 K
Potential Savings: 85.19%

It's not really needed for people with fast connections but it would surely be a lot better for 56K'ers. It takes the main page 10 seconds to load right now.

I know the CPU load will increase because it has to compress all the pages, but I don't think it will increase too much.