Some unmanaged hosts provide cPanel on their hosting plans, or you might have some client sites hosted on a VPS with cPanel. cPanel includes many performance options built-in and supported that you may not be aware of. Make sure that server-side compression of assets is enabled in cPanel this will use the mod_deflate module in Apache. You can select to have all content compressed or specify which MIME type should be compressed. Smaller site assets being server-side compressed will improve your site’s front-end performance. The compression settings will be saved into the site’s .htaccess file. Also, relating to .htaccess settings,