title: Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache?
body: <p>What advantages do either method offer for html, css and javascript files served by a LAMP server. Are there better alternatives?</p>
  
  <p>The server provides information to a map application using Json, so a high volume of small files.</p>
  
  <p><strong>See also <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/211284/is-there-any-performance-hit-involved-in-choosing-gzip-over-deflate-for-http-co">Is there any performance hit involved in choosing gzip over deflate for http compression?</a></strong></p>