I am trying to find all possible ways I could improve my website performance. I was considering enabling dynamic compression at the server level but was concerned by performance hits (no caching of compressed pages – corruption of files – overhead on the server).
Should I just give up on the dynamic compression with IIS 7? are there modules out there that do a better job than the built-in compression module?
Is it worth it to enable dynamic compression in IIS7
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Best Answer
You should almost always enable dynamic compression (static is on by default). Dynamic compression == undue processing stress is a pernicious myth. Here's MSDN:
Also, you can specify a CPU throttle for compression in IIS7.