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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:51:26+00:00

I know this question has been asked many times and I’ve researched it myself

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I know this question has been asked many times and I’ve researched it myself on Google as well but just can’t come up with the answer I need.

My hosting company is NOT letting me use the httpd config file, instead it wants me to use .htaccess. I am not a server admin but I have to believe that there is a performance hit for using this file? I have a site with approx 5 million page views a month and it’s growing. I do not have a lot of rewrite rules just some optimizations we make to serving pages faster ,mod_deflate, caching, etc.

Assuming there is a performance hit, my question is, how bad will it be on my site? Can .htaccess handle 5 million page views with some rewrite rules? How would I be able to test this if I wanted to?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, to my knowledge, the performance difference is negligible, compared to the computing time used for whatever’s used in the .htaccess. For what’s it’s worth, I’ve seen no measurable difference by having a .htaccess file.

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