eaccelerator with IIS6

My site seemed a bit slow the other day (www.canadaka.net) so i decided to try a php cacher. I knew of Zend and PHP Accelerator, but didn't want to fork out that kinda money.

Then i found Turch MMCache, which was a free open source php cache/encoder. but development seems to have stopped, but has been continued by eAccelerator.a
http://eaccelerator.net/BinaryInstallationUk

Got it installed on my Windows 2003 server with PHP 5.03 and IIS6, everything works great and i have noticed a difference.
I have only encoded a couple of the main files of my site for now, but the cache alone seems to be speeding things up a lot. I highly recommend eAccelerator, to encode files there is a php script web interface, would be nice to have a GUI windows app to do it, thats my only complaint.



But here is the question I have, I also a while back enabled gzip compression in IIS, through the metabase edit. And that was working ok. But arn't IIS/gzip and eaccelerator kind of doing hte same thing? is it pointless to have both going, also it might slow it down, should i just run eaccelerator?

 

 

 

 

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