John Hansen wrote:
Joshua D. Drake Wrote

  
we can configure deflate so that it only compresses the html 
not the images.
    

I think he meant, pre compressed html pages.

Eg,:

index.html
index.html.gz

etc...

  
Oh, thats a bad idea, I think, as it would hugely increase the maintenance work on the site, for a marginal gain in server performance. The load increase really is minimal. If our servers are so close to breaking point that this is an issue then we'll need new ones very soon anyway.
Regards,
- Naz