LSLB and gzip compression?

[Mikra]

I can enable gzip compression on the load balancer or on the http nodes. But I'm not sure what is best?

If I enable http compression on the nodes, I can have litespeed webserver cache gzip compressed files.
If I enable http compression on the load balancer, I cannot have a cache (not supported until lslb 2.0).

But what happens if I disabled compression on lslb and enable it on the nodes? Will lslb just pass the compressed pages? Or will lslb server uncompressed pages to the visitors?

 

[mistwang]

lslb will pass through the compressed page.

 

[gdewey]

gzip compression takes resources..

in your recommendation as I understand having the compression in the webserver is better in terms of performance?

 

[mistwang]

Yes, less data travels between LB and server will produce better result