Sorry about that. I didn't really mean gzipped web server, I really meant a web server capable of compressing pages with gzip.

By no means am I an expert on this subject, but basically if a client tells the server it can accept a gzipped-compressed file, and the server supports it, the server will compress the file on the fly, send it, and the client will decompress it on the fly. This sort of compression has a big impact on the server's CPU, but it does reduce the bandwith usage.

It can't compress images, but it can compress anything with a text/* MIME type. This includes html files, and dynamic output from server scripts (CGI, PHP, etc).

I noticed that antionline's web servers do not support this, so I figured I would mention it. Also, most of the newer browsers support gzip compression. Most web servers also support this, including the most-popular Apache webserver.