Hosting Formula

Deploy right technology will help you saving bandwidth and hosting fee for additional bandwidth
One solution from apache module is :
mod_deflate
example of vhost directive in practice :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.hostingformula.info
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog
<Directory /var/www/blog>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml text/plain text/javascript application/x-javascript application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/postscript
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
yes, all type of files listed in DEFLATE lines will get compressed

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chmod 444 will definitely kill wordpress template, any solution?
Yes, do special chmod for wordpress template
go to wp-content
and give chmod to wp-content/themes 751
7 = 4+2+1 (read-write-execute for owner)
5 = 4+1 (read + execute)
1= execute
You’ll see your themes again