title: Apache .htaccess vs httpd - does it really matter?
body: <p>I know this question has been asked many times and I've researched it myself on Google as well but just can't come up with the answer I need.</p>
  
  <p>My hosting company is NOT letting me use the httpd config file, instead it wants me to use .htaccess.  I am not a server admin but I have to believe that there is a performance hit for using this file?  I have a site with approx 5 million page views a month and it's growing.  I do not have a lot of rewrite rules just some optimizations we make to serving pages faster ,mod_deflate, caching, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Assuming there is a performance hit, my question is, how bad will it be on my site?  Can .htaccess handle 5 million page views with some rewrite rules?  How would I be able to test this if I wanted to?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>