Zlib compression is activated and my web host won't turn it off

Hi!

I just tried W3 Total Cache, but the plugin gives me this message:

“Either the PHP configuration, web server configuration or a script in the WordPress installation has zlib.output_compression enabled.
Please locate and disable this setting to ensure proper HTTP compression behaviour.”

Now, I honestly don’t know very much about caching, and nothing more about Zlib, than it is compression between the server and the browser making stuff speed up. Thought and hoped Caching would be rather easy just turning on, and getting a quicker site! ??

I’ve contacted my web hotel, and they won’t turn Zlib off.They tell me that I need their VPS service to do that. So, I’m wondering:

1) Do Zlib and W3 Total Cache interfere with each other, or can/should I still run W3 Total Cache? Are there some specific setting I should use then?

2) Are they actually right? I’ve seen some forum threads discuss how to do this in the different php.ini fond in the wp catalogs ( /wp-admin/ – /wp-content/ – /wp-includes/ ). This makes me wonder if they know what they are talking about… But who am I to tell, that’s why I’m asking! ??

3) I would be glad if someone could give me some more info about Zlib, since I haven’t found very much details about it on Google. Should I be happy with it? Is it just as good as W3 Total Cache, or should I try to argue my web hotel about them turning Zlib off?

Cheers!

Christoffer

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