Added content compression to Apache using mod_deflate

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript

no dramtic changes in speed but every bit counts.

Just had a complaint about response time on the system. Ran some benchmarks here is a result from the homepage using: ab -n 40 -c 20

Time per request: 2.152 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 10059.36 [Kbytes/sec] received

This is very fast. Checked the server logs nothing out of the norm. Makes me think that it was a network issue.